Yes, the title of this post was a direct allusion to Modest Mussorgsky’s Night on the Bare Mountain, but since Grouse has bears, I figured… Ok, it might have been a little "tiré par les cheveux"…

In any case, we took a chance – leaving Vancouver late at the end of a cloudy day. But by the time we were riding the Blue Skyride up, clouds were gone from the mainland and barely clinging to the mountain slopes, where they didn’t stay long. Gorgeous sunset as usual. Bears and deers in the next post.