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The Towers: Things To Do At The Top

Downward to darkness -- Jon Stordahl hucking the second of three jumps off the sandstone ledge that runs around the Towers.

SOMEBODY ALWAYS gets to the top first. Then the wait begins. Have some water. Maybe a candybar. Check on that squeek in your seatpost. Have some more water.

More people arrive, but you're still waiting for the guy who had to stop to take pictures. What to do? A quick game of chess?

Maybe, but actually there are a number of things to do at the top. Take the sandstone ledge that the highest tower is built on. It makes a dandy jungle jim, for descending and climbing both. You can roll it on the low end, and the high end great for hucking. The really sick people climb it too, as witnessed by the sequence shots below.

Going up or down, just about everybody angles across the sandstone shelf, partly because of the location of the tower immediately behind, and partly because the hucksters don't want to pancake on the flat Tower Rd. below.

Remember, GalbraithMt.com recommends studying all stunts like this before riding them the first time. Better yet, watch someone who knows what they're doing ride it.

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The following are sequence shots of the stunt. Click on the thumbnail images to view a larger version...

Just foolin' around -- Mark Marti makes a Kona move off the first jump off the sandstone ledge that runs around the towers at the top of the imaginary place we call Galbraith Mt.

	The third jump at the Towers is a hip. You'll see it on the left from the Tower Rd. just before you get to the top. Here's Dave Sears airing it out on his orange Santa Cruz Bullit a couple years ago before the trees grew up so much. Click here for a video of Dave flying off the Tower Hip.
	And here's Jon cavorting on the same hip on his black Intense M-1...
	The main meat here, though, is Jump #2. Here's Dave Sears showing scoping it as he rolls toward the lip...
	Airing it out...
	Hello hang time...
	Before smoothly landing it it...
	And rolling it out on the Tower Rd. just as the you start the absolutely final climb to the top...
	OK -- here's a sequence of the first jump. Alex Vouri gets up a good head of steam as he approaches the edge of the sandstone ledge...
	Pops his front wheel up before he goes off the edge...
	And rides it...
	Right off the edge...
	And down...
	To the edge of the Tower Rd.
	Finally, here's Mark Belles climbing the ledge. He starts from a trackstand and punches it...
	Punches it...
	And really digs in (if you don't think he's working, click the larger version of this image)...
	And digs some more...
	Until he's got it!