Grouse Grind

Sunday was my Grouse Grind day with my co-worker and his friend. It's been a long time since I've done the grind and wanted to know how fit I am.

When we were stretching our legs at the entrance, we saw men with the red overall prepping the stretcher. We didn’t think anything about it and proceeded to the hike. As we hiked up, these guys passed us carrying the stretcher and it looked pretty heavy and I can see they’re having difficulty carrying it up. About 10 min we saw another guy with the overall escorting down senior Chinese guy down the trail. I guess he was hurt as he was holding the rescue guy’s arm.

After some unexpected even and 3 long breaks, we made to the top after 2 hours and 30 min. Too bad I was with slow people and couldn’t push myself to see how is my time compared to my personal best… Oh well, maybe next time.

At the top, we ate overpriced food, watched the lumber jack show, walked around, and saw the bear. I thought coming up the hiking trail was busy but talk about the line to get on the gondola… I don’t remember this place been this busy when I was here last time.