Rode Galbraith alone on what I hoped would be a quick jaunt to burn off some of the tension surrounding Lane and my divorce. Instead the tension got me. I was riding up Miranda when I suddenly went blind. Actually, I still had some peripheral vision, but the center of my vision was a dancing whirl of confusion. I had to lie down in the trail with my eyes closed for about 10 minutes. When I reopened my eyes, I could see OK but I limped home. Later, Mark told me I had probably experienced an ocular migrane.

Approximately 700 verts. I ended up with 27,000 verts for the month of November, and 382,000 verts climbed for the year.

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.