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Day #: 182 Ride #: 119 Day's verts: 2300 Total vertical feet climbed: 213,200
Daily Deal: Red Mt. with Russ
Ride Journal: Red Mt and Heady Trails, WA
Bruce Brown and Russ Lambert
6/30/2000

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Vedder Ridge, the tip of Red Mt., and the Black Mt behind in the evening sun. The Heady Trails are tucked in between these two ridge lines, in the upper valley.

Rode Red Mt. with Russ Lambert, We climbed to the Cedar Grove, and then came down the steep trail behind, which has almost entirely vanished into the delicate white flowers of the miner's lettuce.

Afterwards, we checked out the Oscar Johnson trail, which was plenty dry, but very rough from heavy horse use. There were no fresh evidence of bikes on the trail, but we made a start toward establishing a bike track.

Got just slightly less than 38,000 verts for the month of June, bringing my total for the year to 213,266 verts climbed.

Approximately 2300 verts.

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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