As I posted two weeks ago, the North Shore's Triple Crown is one heck of a tough ride. It plays with your mind on the third and final ascend to the top and takes half a day to complete. Nutrition needs to be up to par, hydration should be topped up on a regular basis and you should have some money to treat yourself to something nice once you're done.
Ashley and I conquered the ride once and wanted to one up the anti this time around - and we did. We started at 7am and parked my car in the Grouse Mountain parking lot then took off on our bikes and headed over to Mt. Seymour. Stage 1 completed...onto Cypress then finished with dropping the bikes off and locking them into my car at Grouse. We were tired, it had taken us just under 6 hours to complete 107km's of hills but we knew we wanted more. To one-up our last ride, we started to hike the Grouse Grind. 2.8km's of uphill mayhem to finish the day!
On a regular day the grind might take us 40-45 minutes... today we both took over 1 hour to finish it! None-the-less, we showed those mountains whose boss and finished the day with a tall pint of beer and some nachos.
So what's next... Well, we've got the fire lit bright under our asses for new (and crazy) challenges. We're talking about adding in a third person so we can park at each mountain base and actually hike to the peak of each one with rides in-between. The other option right now is to sign up for the Mount Baker ride where you simply just ride to the top of Mount Baker!
What do YOU think should be our next EPIC DAY...?
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