Grouse grind questions

Trip Suggestion Request

My family will be in Vancouver in August and while there we want to do the grind. I did it back in 2019 and want my husband to experience it.

We have breakfast reservations with the bears at 8. What time can we start hiking? 630? It took me just over an hour last time.

Also, where are the grizzly bears in relation to the tip of the grind? Do we go back down? Or are they also at the top?

in vancouverhikingby Key-Alert

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15d

YVR19

15d

What's your husband's current activity level? Is he up to climbing 300 flights of stairs in an hour?

Key-Alert

15d

Thanks all! Sadly we just realized that we would have to pay 80.00 each just to get access to grouse mountain and then 80.00 each h for the breakfast :( too much for our family of 6. We will still hike grouse but the rest of the family will have to meet us later elsewhere

Side note- yep my husband can keep up ;)

phileo99

15d

If you hike up the Grouse grind, then it's $20 for the gondola ride down https://www.grousemountain.com/general-admission-membership/download-ticket

Key-Alert

15d

For sure- but we have 4 kids so that another 200 plus the 200 for breakfast with the bears sadly

IcyDay5

15d

You don't need breakfast with the bears to have a good shot at seeing them. Hike up the grind, go for a stroll to the bear enclosure, watch them for awhile (unless they are in their enclosure, but in the morning they're often playing by the bridge), then either take the gondola down or walk down via the BCMC. Won't cost you anything except for the gondola down (which since it's one way is cheaper than the two way ticket)

armyofthepugs

15d

If you can walk up Grind and don't mind taking BCMC back down, you shouldn't have to pay for the $80 admission ticket. Those who walk up can also enjoy the attractions, other than the extra ones like breakfast etc.

UskBC

15d

An hour is fast unless you are very fit. Don’t kill your husband (lots of heart attacks on the grind)

Beneficial-Oven1258

15d

The Grizzly habitat is about an 800m walk from the top of the grind, across the resort towards the big windmill (roughly). If you take an hour on the grind then 6:30 is just about perfect I would say.

Key-Alert

15d

That’s perfect. I assume no showers lol. We will bring other clothes and baby wipes

phileo99

15d

No disrespect to your husband, but is he able to keep pace with you to climb it in an hour also?
Climbing up the Grouse grind is not the same as being able to jog for an hour, although that would be a good litmus test

myairblaster

15d

It’s perfect acceptable to be stinky at the top of Grouse. Don’t worry about it unless you feel the need for your own comfort. A lot of people will just do a quick hikers bath using paper towel from the washrooms at the top

Beneficial-Oven1258

15d

Haha nope- no showers. I always just bring an extra shirt to change into at the top.