Show boy conquers mountain with mers mere bicycle poor old mount si maligned li ii ib cled and blamed in the past for everything bad which happened around north bend wash including earthquakes has at last been utterly humiliated the venerable peak near the eastern king county line has plumbed the humble depths it has taken a swift kick in the pants it has been hoist upon a fearsome petard it has drunk of bitterer ten tea than general yen ever sipped in short mount si has been conquered by a bicycle which wh automatically mati cally transforms tl the once proud into nothing more than a foot molehill all this was brought about by the rather awesome determination of george kirchner jr young cycling enthusiast of north bend it was revealed kirchner and 10 fellow members in the pacific northwest cycling association were pedaling in the north bend area sunday when one of the party whom you can blame for all this suggested climbing mount si it if this is a cycling tour its a cycling tour declared kirchner firmly and to illustrate the point he began pushing his light touring model cycle up mount sis craggy flank two and one half hours later la kirchner helped by two of his h ter friends carried the bicycle up the last few hundred precipitous feet to sis bald pate leaving behind him a trail of trembling lady hikers and popeyed gentlemen hikers then throwing a leg over the saddle saddie kirchner declared wn im going to ride this thing back do down seven lady hikers swooned but kirchner undaunted threw out an anchor applied the brakes dragged both feet and bounded bounded down the mountainside he managed to ride most of the downward trail friends said with the aplomb of a mexican jumping bean riding a rubber ball kirchner brought back several mementoes of the trip he is painfully aware of them when he is not standing |