By Abby Luciano, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, North Shore News Kirsten Heal has been going up Grouse Mountain for as long as she can remember. She began skiing with her family on the mountain at age seven. Grouse Mountain was her favourite place to go to ski with her brother. In 1988, she started as a ski instructor at the resort. Over the next 38 years, she held various positions, from serving food and beverages to sales, before becoming director of guest services. And the rest is history, as Heal met her husband, who worked on the snow-making crew, and today both her children work there as an instructor and an adventure guide. “That’s one of the magical things about the mountain is that for a lot of Vancouverites, it’s…
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