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Day #: 221 Ride #: 141 Day's verts: 1200 Total vertical feet climbed: 251,500
Daily Deal: Icing the thigh
Ride Journal: Galbraith Mt., WA
Bruce Brown, Steve Hindman and Mark Belles
8/8/2000

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Mark descending the nasty stairstep corner near the top of Bob's Trail.

Rode Galbraith with Mark and Steve after icing my left thigh and right ankle heavily last night and this morning.

Got a nice photo sequence of Mark on Bob's Trail, after which we continued down onto the Galbraith Flats. We took the third right off the Pipeline Rd, then the first left (ignoring the first right), and then right again. This put us on a path that took us down Nick and Pete. At the end of N&P, we came out to a big intersection in the woods, and took the middle left fork, then turned again and rode up Lost Giant, passing Chutes and Ladders and coming out on the road at the bottom of Crazy 8s.

I had to split at this point because of a noon appointment with the mortgage guy at WECU regarding the house on Humboldt. Lane is back from Trout Lake, but has thrown her back out (probably hefting the back seat to the van into her Toyota).

The best news of all, though, is that Laurel seems to like the prospect of moving to Bellingham and specifically the Humboldt house. Hallelujah!

Approximately 1200 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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