Grouse Grinding & Playlist!

This girl makes a wicked breakfast!

Grouse mountain is a popular location for both tourists and locals alike. We even met some visitors from Cali on the gondola back to the base of the mountain! 

The Grind, just as beautiful but somewhat less visited is "a 2.9-kilometre trail (which is really not a trail at all but billions of stairs) up the face of Grouse Mountain, commonly referred to as “Mother Nature’s Stairmaster.” as quoted by the mountain's website.

My best friend and I decided to take on mother nature's wonderful and exhausting workout, the equivalent of 2, 830 steps on I'm sure the highest difficulty setting!! Even though It's crazy hard there's something so perfect about breathing in the clean air and looking out at the forest God's hand created for our exploration! I find myself praying for energy at some points, but in all reality I praise Him knowing I can push myself and the power and strength that's stored deep down in each of us. His work is breath-taking! 

Post-Grind Pose :)

Last year around mid September we did the grind at around 1 hour and 30 minutes.

Today's time was 1 hour and 5 minutes for Emma and 1 hour 8 minutes for me. 

Phew! 

Here's the playlist that kept me pushing: (and started a mid-hill dance party that made a few others smile)

- Titanium (Extended), David Guetta f. Cia

- Defying Gravity, Glee Cast Version (My anthem really) 

- Touch the Sky, Julie Fowlis (From Disney's Brave, best adventure song!)

- The Mother we Share, Chvrches

- Benny & Joon, William Beckett

- Happy, Pharrell

- LA Story, Sammy Adams f. Mike Posner

- Blurred Lines, Robin Thicke f. T.I. & Pharrell (I'm not usually a Pharrell fan)

- Over the Love, Florence and The Machine 

- Global Concepts (Clean), Robert Delong

- Recover (Cid Rim Remix), Churches

- Everything, Lifehouse (never get tired of this one, one of my fav Jesus songs)

- Lover of The Light, Mumford & Sons (Mumford's music could be medicine <3) 

- Boy, Nina Nesbitt

- Bombshell Blonde, Owl City (I had to!)

- Come and Get it, Selena Gomez

- Slow Down, Selena Gomez

- Make War, Tedashii (I made warrrrrrr on the Grouse Grind, only funny if you know the song)

- Holding on to you, Twenty One Pilots

- Summer Vibe, Walk Off the Earth

- Going to California, Wave (Beacause I am in two days)

- Come Away to the Water, Maroon 5

- Eyes Open, Taylor Swift

When you're done the painful task of the grind there's a relaxing gondola back down to the bottom. Today was a fun ride as it was so foggy you couldn't see anything! You couldn't take in the amazing view but it was slightly scary and thrilling ;) 

We even met this cutie at the bottom! 

Was a great day! 

P.S. Here's a new smoothie recipe I came up with! Delicious!

- 1 pear

- 1 kiwi

- half a frozen banana

- 1 cup frozen strawberries

- 1 tbs of VEGA 1 vanilla protein powder

- 3 mint leaves

- 1 cup coconut water