Ancient sentinels by Danvic Briones
The Grouse Grind® is a 2.9-kilometre trail up the face of Grouse Mountain, called Mother Nature’ s Stairmaster. It is located in Western Canada.
I signed up to conquer The Grind.
But it conquered me.
When Sun Tzu said “subdue the enemy without fighting”, I didn’t know he was talking about mountains.
And there, on top of craggy stairways, winding their way to a seemingly unreachable top, on a tough terrain that has been peppered with foggy breaths and hardened determination, I found out – I am not superwoman.