GROUSE Grind hikers raised more than $130,000 this year for B.C. Children's Hospital.
Participants in the Grind For Kids fundraiser took pledges for completing the hike, with a total of 8,000 trips up the mountain being logged this summer, bringing the twoyear total of the program to more than $300,000 raised.
Seventy-year-old Terry Byrne led the way with 352 hikes on the Grouse Grind this year - twice a day, seven days a week - but he said it wasn't hard to find the motivation.
"I take part in Grind For Kids in the hope my humble efforts will someday inspire children, when they are healed, to hike in the forest, to hear the myriad of sounds that can be soothing to the soul," he said.
