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Day #: 77 Ride #: 55 Day's verts: 1300 Total vertical feet climbed: 85,700
Daily Deal: Feeling weak
Ride Journal: Galbraith Mt, WA
Bruce Brown and Mark Adriance
3/17/2000

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Flowers old and new -- white pearly everlastung from last fall mixed with the first swelling pink buds of flowering currant.
Had intended to ride the south side of Galbraith, but Mark Adriance called on the cell phone just as I was leaving the car on Galbraith Lane and said he was waiting for one of his patients to go into labor. Since he was on the north side at St. Joseph's Hospital, we agreed to meet at Birch St.

It was a dark, rainy day which I celebrated by going down on the first roots you come to as you circle around the cable at the very bottom of the Ridge Trail. I hit my left knee (the other knee) hard on the handlebars, which pretty much set the tone for the ride. Mark out climbed me on his bike, and then after I loaned him mine, he really out climbed me on mine. On the down he stayed with me, and then passed me.

My legs felt weak after eight straight days and about 13,000 verts.

Approximately 1300 verts.


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Dr. Mark on call in the rain, waiting for his expectant patient to go into labor at St. Joseph's Hostpital in Bellingham.
Vert Quest -- excerpts from Mongo's World Record Journal by Bruce Brown
Days: 365 Rides: 220 Total vertical feet climbed: 404,900
January 2000 - "South Pass Mist" by Bruce Brown
January
February 2000 - "Bo" by Mongo
February
March 2000 - "The Big East" by Mongo
March
April 2000 - "Mark on Dan's Trail" by Mongo
April
May 2000 - "Flowers by the Back Porch" by Bruce Brown
May
June 2000 - "Herb at the Big Gnarly" by Mongo
June
July 2000 - "Woof" by Mongo
July
August 2000 - "Lake Samish" by Mongo
August
September 2000 - "Babe" by Mongo
September
October 2000 - "Still Life with Helmet" by Bruce Brown
October
November 2000 - "Mongo on the Family Fun Center" by Mark Adriance
November
December 2000 - "Guano on the Coast" by Mongo
December
* Click here for the full list of Bruce Brown's Vert Quest journal entries.

Vert Quest chronicles "The Man Known As Mongo's" pursuit of the World Record for climbing on a mountain bike, 404,000 vertical feet, or the vertical equivalent of 13 sea-level-to-summit ascents of Mt. Everest during a 12 month period. Mongo's mountain bike climbing tricks are distilled in Mongo's Over-the-top Guide to Climbing.

Mongo's Guide to Climbing by Bruce Brown


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