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Grind For Shelter 2010
Karl Woll | June 24, 2010 4:28 pm
He’s at it again. After setting the record for completing the most Grouse Grinds in a single day (13), Sebastian Albrecht is out to break his own record this summer. And he’s doing it all for a good cause:
Consecutive Grouse Grind Record to Be Challenged for Charity Again
Sebastian Albrecht to attempt to break the record and climb 14 consecutive hikes in honour of the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation(Vancouver, B.C)- Vancouver realtor and Grouse Grind record holder, Sebastian Albrecht, will attempt to climb the Grouse Grind 14 times in one day, breaking the record he currently shares with Vicki Mann. Albrecht hopes to support his personal challenge to help raise $15,000 for the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation, a charity devoted to supporting shelters and ending violence against women and children.
On Monday, June 28th, just days after his 35th birthday, Albrecht will start at 6:30 a.m. and climb straight to 11:00 p.m. This year he hopes to hike each Grind quicker and make better use of the gondola timing in order to complete 14 in one day. For more information or to donate to Albrecht’s goal, visit www.grind4shelter.com.
“After successfully completing 13 Grinds in one day last year and coming close to reaching my fundraising goal, I became motivated to up the ante this year” says Albrecht. “I have made changes to my training to improve my endurance and speed and I am confident that I can complete 14 Grinds in one day and hopefully, raise $15,000 for the Royal Le Page Shelter Foundation.”
The Grouse Grind is a 2.9-kilometre trail up the face of Grouse Mountain with 2,830 stairs and an elevation gain of 853 metres. Completing 14 Grinds in one day he will climb 39,620 stairs and hike nearly one and a half times the height of Mount Everest. It takes the average hiker about an hour and a half to complete one Grind; Albrecht’s average time was only 52 minutes/hike when he set the current record.
Albrecht will be tweeting updates throughout the day from @salbrecht using the hashtag #Grind4Shelter.
For more information check out Sebastian’s website. If you would like to donate you can do so here: www.canadahelps.org/GivingPages/GivingPage.aspx?gpID=7947
June 29, 2010 Update:
For Immediate Release June 28th
Sebastian Albrecht Sets New Grouse Grind Record
Vancouver Realtor Reaches His Goal and Completes 14 Consecutive Grouse Grinds in One Day
(Vancouver, B.C.)- Sebastian Albrecht completed his goal of climbing14 Grouse Grinds in one day, beating the previous record of 13. He started at 6:30am and finished at 11:12pm. Vicki Mann who last year matched Albrecht’s 13 grinds in one day, came up today to help motivate him up the mountain for the last grind today and Jason Chong, another previous record holder came up to offer his support as well. Albrecht will continue to accept donations for The Royal Le Page Shelter Foundation for the next week. His goal is to raise $15000, Donations can be made at www.grind4shelter.com.
Grouse Grind Opening For 2010
Karl Woll | June 11, 2010 3:32 pm
I just saw on the North Shore Rescue blog that the Grouse Grind will be opening for the season Saturday, June 12. Currently, the hours are from 6:15am to 7:30pm.
The Grouse Grind Trail is located in North Vancouver, B.C., at the base of the Grouse Mountain Resort ski area. It is an extremely steep and mountainous trail that begins at the 300-metre-elevation and climbs to 1,100 metres over a distance of approximately 2.9 kilometres.
Hiking times vary considerably depending on each hiker’s individual fitness level. The Grouse Grind hike is difficult and those planning on climbing the trail should be in excellent physical condition. Those individuals with any health concerns including high blood pressure, heart and breathing problems are warned not to attempt to hike the trail. Hikers should always be personally prepared before setting out on the Grouse Grind. As a minimum, you should leave a hiking plan with a friend, never hike alone, and carry adequate water, food, warm clothing and a cell phone.
Ensure that you leave yourself enough time to complete your hike before the onset of darkness. Hiking the Grouse Grind Trail in darkness can be extremely hazardous and results in many lost hikers each season.
Also just wanted to mention two quick things relating to the Grind.
1) This year there is a Grind for Kids program benefiting the BC Children’s Hospital. Simply get people you know to donate $1 for each time you do the Grind.
2) I read a great article on the history of the Grind in this month’s Explore. Pick it up if you get a chance, but you can read an article excerpt here:
The story behind the Grouse Grind
How two hikers created Canada’s busiest trail
Bruce Grierson Featured in our June 2010 issue.
Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira didn’t commute every day by foot to their makeshift set atop Grouse Mountain. But at least once during the Winter Olympics, the NBC Today Show hosts trudged to their job by way of the storied hiking trail that the world now knows about too. The Grouse Grind inhaled the co-hosts at the parking lot and coughed them up at the summit, 2.9 kilometres and 2,798 vertical feet later. If Vancouver was Heaven—as the anchors daily suggested it was—then they had discovered the Stairway. The makeup guy that day didn’t bother with the rouge.
Rotund weatherman Al Roker took the tram. But Matt and Meredith, see, they didn’t really have a choice. If you’re a reporter in Vancouver trying to take the temperature of the town, you must engage with the Grind. Must. Because the Grind isn’t just some local recreation option. It’s a crucible, a social phenomenon, a cosmic test of character. Hereabouts, your relationship with the Grind is a metric of what kind of Vancouverite you are.
People talk about their “Grind time”—which turns out, handily, to be about the same as their 10K time. A rule of thumb is that if you can do the Grind in the same number of minutes as your age in years, you’re really fit. (For most people, that only starts to be a possibility in their thirties or forties, like shooting their age in golf.) There are Grouse Grind swipe cards that trip a sensor at a timing post on the bottom and again at the top. Each year the Canucks hockey club tests its crop of prospects on the Grind. (The best time—and it won’t surprise you they had the same result—belongs to the twins, Henrik and Daniel Sedin, at around 32 minutes.) Wilderness-therapy programs have rehabilitated at-risk kids on it. Monks have carried a heavy brass Buddha up it, each taking a few steps and passing it along. There are Grouse Grind dating strategies, Grouse Grind playlists. And there’s a local realtor who completed the Grind 13 times in one day. (As his brain-fog cleared on the last gondola down at 11 p.m., he calculated that he’d burned 14,000 calories.)
These days, well over 100,000 people do the Grind every year.If you could harness the energy output of all those hikers, you might not need the new 1.5 MW wind turbine just installed on the peak to help run the resort. In a way, Grinders do power Grouse. They amount to a windfall for the Grouse Mountain ski resort management—which never, truth be told, wanted a staircase up their mountain in the first place, but are now quite happy to take a million bucks of Grinders’ money to the bank every year.
It’s hard to imagine Vancouver without the Grind. But you don’t have to go back too far in time to do it….
Pics & Vids Of The Week 09/10/2009
Karl Woll | October 10, 2009 8:35 am- A British man was lucky to survive this 165 ft bungee jump when his harness failed:
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- This week a group of Cape Town surfers attempted to beat the record for most people to ride a single wave. They claim they’ve beaten the standing record of 100, but the video is still being reviewed [Via Outside Blog]:
- Why we kayak [Via Kayak Yak]:
- Alexandra Morten speaks at the latest Salmon Circle Rally last weekend:
Surfing….. Lake Superior? A nice photo set:
Found this cute video of a mini Grouse-Grinder:
- The trailer for a new documentary on a father-son trio who went on a two year paddling from Manitoba to Brazil back in 1982 [Via the Adventure Blog]:
Sunday Links
Karl Woll | July 26, 2009 7:10 amI come across a lot of good articles each week, and rather than just post them to Twitter I’ve decided to start doing a weekly recap of the outdoor/ adventure related stuff that gets my interest. Introducing, Sunday Links! (I know, my creative ability to make exciting names for things blows my mind as well ).
- CTV has an article on the found remains of Daniel Hughes
- Backpacking Light asks How Light Can You Go?
- The Vancouver Sun profiled Ali Howard, who is hoping to become the first person to swim the entire Skeena River to create awareness around threats to the watershed
- CBC has an article on a 34 whale watchers who survived their ship sinking near the Gulf Islands
- The Vancouver Sun has the scoop on the dead whale that was brought into the Vancouver port by a cruise ship
- The Globe & Mail has a fantastic article on the Grouse Grind
- National Geographic Adventure debates whether barefoot running is better than cushioned shoes
