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Day #: 172 Ride #: 111 Day's verts: 2300 Total vertical feet climbed: 200,400
Daily Deal: Galbraith glory days
Ride Journal: Galbraith Mt, WA
Bruce Brown and Mark Belles
6/20/2000

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Mark cutting down the root and rock combo just after the Upper Ridge Trail comes out of the trees.

Another great ride with Mark, this time on a gorgeous sunny day on Galbraith. We headed up to Wonderland, and then dove down Dan's Trail, which I had my best run ever on. I cleaned everything but biggest log crossing at the very end of the trail, where I had to put my feet down. I got the last (and slightly smaller) log crossing immediately afterwards, though. Then we headed down the bottom two Pigs, which Mark had brushed out the day before with the used weed eater he bought for the purpose.

Approximately 2300 verts.

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Bruce weaving through the stump combos just before you go back into the trees on the Lower Ridge Trail.
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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