Vertical and Horizontal Destiny - How Far Can You Go?

[CommanderBaker]

I want to see how much vertical and horizontal boarding, biking, and hiking I can get in over the next year. Of course I am talking about earned miles and vertical, all self-powered.

How much do you think is possible in a week, in a month, in a season, in a year? What are your personal day, week, month, season and yearly records?

Part of Mission Vertical and Horizontal Destiny is to raise money for the benefit of children that are cancer survivors. The mission is being sponsored by my own hard work. I am hoping to get corporate sponsors on board solely for raising money for children cancer survivors. If anybody is interested in knowing more, please contact me.

My start day is June 25th, with 100 miles of mountain biking including 17,000 feet of up and 17,000 feet down on the aggenda, with 50 miles of single track (link to map here http://www.puff100.netfirms.com/art_...map2_full.pdf).

Hoping to get over 100,000 vertical feet in this month.

[Big Blue]

I know there was a dude who skinned a million verts in a season a couple years ago. Just for reference. Sounds like an awesome idea, good luck with it.

[upallnight]

I know there was a dude who skinned a million verts in a season a couple years ago. Just for reference. Sounds like an awesome idea, good luck with it.

Yeah...Canadian guy, right? I think he kills it every season.

Hmm...read an article about him...what was his name??

[PNWbrit]

Greg Hill

[shirk]

Mark Weir was also doing some million miles or riding thing. A few articles in the mags about it.

[ANON-505]

yeah, Greg Hill. From (and I will misspell) Pemberton, or something. Skinned a million vert (ups) in a single ski season. Some days were 40,000 feet of climbing. (That's a 2000' climb TWENTY times).

I heard he was a rich-kid trust funder....buy slayer indeed.

[upallnight]

yeah, Greg Hill. From (and I will misspell) Pemberton, or something. Skinned a million vert (ups) in a single ski season. Some days were 40,000 feet of climbing. (That's a 2000' climb TWENTY times).

I heard he was a rich-kid trust funder....buy slayer indeed.

trust-funder or not...one day alone of that would kill me (not that i *could* do that in a day)....so to kill it that much in a season is impressive.

[shirk]

I don't recall reading that Hill was a trust funder. He skied out of Revelstoke not Pemby.

[ANON-505]

yeah, right, revelstoke...you're right.

I don't know the guy or anything. Some friends of friends skied with him a couple years before his odyssey...

totally, trust fund or not, that's some amazing fucking shit. I heard he wasn't some lycra clad weight weenie, he was skiing fat skis and big plastic boots, and he'd descend some rowdy lines. I heard skiing with him isn't so fun, as he pretty much dusts everyone all day.

Anyway, sorry to hijack.

I think any single day that has more than 5000' of vert or more than 35 miles is big...big enough that if you do it all of the time, day after day, you'd be a pretty fucking amazing athlete.

[CommanderBaker]

Checkin in after the Creampuff 100. What a classic grueler this year. Drove outta SLC Friday night and pulled into Elko late. Talk about lurkers. Holy sheep shit!!

All those desert peaks I was lookin at on the drive got me excited for some backcountry trips next season. Drove all day saturday across the oregon/nevada desert to get to westfir OR.

5:15 AM race start on Sunday. Nice and alsmost cool with a serious stifling heat wave in store for the day - upper 90s.

After the neutral start everbody turned on the juiced and hammered up the first 3000' or so of climbing. A group of about 20 fast guys broke away from the field and I hung onto that group as much as I could, but couldn't quite bridge up to them. No problem - I knew it was going to be a long, long day and a war of attrition.

About ten miles in and the field all stretched out, we came to a stretch of 15 miles classic unmarked/barely marked deep woods rolling single track through the forest riding with the high speed posse. That section was about the best single track I've ridden on, burms, loam, barely discernable trail, ferns, redwoods, rhododendrons, sweet joy. I don't think these trails are in any guidebook and there are no signs

Soon the joy would be over... Huge climb up to the top of the Alpine loop and it was really starting to heat up. The alpine loop has about 15 miles of downhill single track with some short climbs thrown in through classic NW deep woods. One section is called the Jedi section cause it is like you are in one of those ewok fighters flying through the woods. Total rush that just keeps going and going. The first loop ended back in westfir at mile 66 and after about 11-12000 feet of climbing.

Well it was just stiffling, fuggun hot, and cookin for the long climb back up to the top. This was about the hardest climb I have done. There was no breeze because the forest was so thick on either side of the fire road we were climbing back up top. Hardly any shade - you had to weave from side to side as you were riding up to get any relief from the sweltering sun. I still had legs and wanted to stand-up and mosh the pedals, but as soon as I would get going, the heat would be me down into my little suffer hole in which i was begining to curl up into.

3000' up to AID station 2 and then another 1000 or so up top again over to saddle blanket mountain, unbeleivable rhododendron gardens and the elephant grass was blooming too. One last trip down the Alpine trail, dangerously tired, holding on for dear life, tryin to eek out all the little climbs that were easy the first time through and finally down to the finish.

The last couple of years, they got about 100+ finishers outta 130 starters.

This year they had 52 finishers and 70 drop outs. It was ugly. Carnage everywhere. I was glad to finish since I haven't ridden over 30 miles in a day this season outta sure stupidity, I ended up 2nd in my group, and 10 overall.

Waiting for the heat to break again before I go out and get sum more...

[CommanderBaker]

yeah, right, revelstoke...you're right.

I don't know the guy or anything. Some friends of friends skied with him a couple years before his odyssey...

totally, trust fund or not, that's some amazing fucking shit. I heard he wasn't some lycra clad weight weenie, he was skiing fat skis and big plastic boots, and he'd descend some rowdy lines. I heard skiing with him isn't so fun, as he pretty much dusts everyone all day.

Anyway, sorry to hijack.

I think any single day that has more than 5000' of vert or more than 35 miles is big...big enough that if you do it all of the time, day after day, you'd be a pretty fucking amazing athlete.

Hill is an AT queer Actually pretty cool from what I saw, besides the AT part. He did 50,000 in 24 hours at sunlight and crossed the finish line arm in arm with a gunny/cb tough guy to share the world vertical 24 hour record. http://www.24hoursofsunlight.com/

[mntlion]

he worked trail crew at sunshine years ago when I was a lifty. and set up the rando race at the hill this year.

[flowtron]

Nice work Baker, I've heard great things about that race. The trails sound amazing.

Does it count if I earn my vert going down? DHing is hard work.

[Long Duck Dong]

Holy crap Jonathan. Way to be. You have a link for that race/results?

[CommanderBaker]

Nice work Baker, I've heard great things about that race. The trails sound amazing.

Does it count if I earn my vert going down? DHing is hard work.

It all counts mang as long as you are pushin it.

Holy crap Jonathan. Way to be. You have a link for that race/results?

Thanks Flow and Jamie.

Link here. http://www.puff100.netfirms.com/index.html. No results up yet. Good maps of course/trail - I am telling you, dis is da place if ya know what I mean

The creampuff has a field limit of 120ish (minimize impact). Fills up super quick with previous years riders getting first dibs (fills within 2 weeks when regy). About a third of the field on singlespeeds (all up and down). I might go singlespeed 29er next year.

[CommanderBaker]

Trail monkeys waiting for pappa to come on through

[CommanderBaker]

Starting to fall behind already. 4500' vertical and 30 miles of rim riding around Crater Lake NP yesterday for dawn patrol puts me at about 21500' for the week. Racing at Solitude tomorrow should give me another 3000' for almost 25000 for the week. The lame thing is that makes only 3 days last week. The creampuff and stiffling heat did me in for a couple of days. But it made me stronger too, so I should be able to crank it up a notch in the coming weeks.

I am still euphoric about that singletrack on winberry divide and tire mountain up there by westfir. That was awesome! Can't wait for next year!

Might have to go big on the 4th.

[CommanderBaker]

I got my 25000 feet for my first week of the mission so I am stoked. 17,000+ and 100 miles at the Creampuff. 30 miles and 4500 on dawn patrol at crater lake and 4300 and 20 miles at Solitude yesterday. Not bad for three days in the saddle but I need more, more, more.

I am in the process of setting up accounts at make-a-wish, children's cancer foundation and several other charities if anybody is wishing to donate to these great charities. Or if you have any other prefered charities let me know, and I can contact them. I'll post all the charity information in the week or two.

[CommanderBaker]

here are a couple of pixs from the creampuff - from sasquatch on the mtbr site.

Me in the pain cave


Jedi section pixs

[CommanderBaker]

Getting a website set up for the quest, so I can soon quite posting my bull sheeit on TGR.

The miles and vertical are starting to flow now that I am back home. Yesterday was a 1:20 lap from the bottom of TQ up to the top of TQ, then over to the road up to snowbird entrance 2 for about 20 miles and 2910 vertical up according to the GPS. Today was a commute into work and back with a lil extra climb or two thrown in for another 2500' and 18 miles. Hot. Love getting in all those good miles on the commute.

Tomorrow will be doing the upper loop early with J-FOX which is mill creek up and over to midmountain, mid-mountain over to Jupiter, then up to the crest and back down and over to mill-creek backdown. This is the easy way. The other loop I like to do is the over and back which is up mill creek over to PC via midmountain, drink heavily, then back up to the crest, and back home via mill creek.

On course for 100,000 in a month. The cancer kids will be stoked