31 Oct
Today was the first day of my ongoing circumnavigations of Canada – I was heading from British Columbia to the Yukon. I had a friend who had just bought a car in Vancouver and needed to drive it back to the Yukon.
We had a false start before we really got going, taking Highway 99 past [...]
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07 Oct
It had to be done… I’d been in Vancouver (on and off) for 5 months and I had not done the infamous Grouse Grind, Vancouver’s “Mother Nature’s stairmaster” – for the uninitiated this equates to:
A trail that is a short 2.9km (1.8 miles)…
…but rises 853m (2,800ft)…
…and you climb up 2,830 steps (but a squillion additional [...]
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