A Day on Grouse Mountain

For years now I've been looking from bus and train windows up at the mountains and picking out the lights of the ski resorts and vowing to be up there some time soon. Yesterday Sarah and I finally went.

After busing downtown, we took the SeaBus over to North Vancouver. Here's Grouse Mountain from the water. The cleft in the trees is where the gondolas go. The white clearing above that is one of the bigger ski runs.


The day was much busier than we expected. We queued for about half an hour just to get into the gondola. Here's us clearing the parking lot.


We raced the neighbouring gondola. It won.


This is that ski run I mentioned earlier. Sorry about the view in the background; I know it's not much to look at.


We also queued another half hour to rent ski equipment. As we neared the head of the queue we were informed that they'd run out of ski poles. We're both beginners so a day without poles seemed unwise, and I have no experience with snowboards, so we bailed. It was really disappointing but we did walk around and play in the snow.

This is another run above us. The wind generator is new; there's an observation deck on it also.


Hi, Sarah. What are those? Gifts? For me? Oh, how nice! Thank you so - hey!