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Annual Local's Pass Special Offer $20 Gift Card with the Purchase or Renewal of an Annual Local's Pass Until October 10, 2016, when you purchase or renew an Annual Local’s Pass, you’ll receive a $20 gift card that can be used at Grouse Mountain’s Altitudes Bistro or toward a spectacular dinner at the award-winning Observatory fine dining restaurant. With an Annual Local’s Pass you get year-round

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Birds In Motion Profile: Dash Peregrine Falcon Meet Dash from our Birds In Motion Demonstration. Dash is a Peregrine falcon and he’s three years old. Peregrine falcons are the fastest living animals on the planet! They can fly at speeds up to 390 km/hr. As a bird of prey they actually eat other birds and use their speed in hunting. Because they fly so fast, Peregrine falcons have built in goggles

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Delicious Dandelions Honey Bees and Wild Bees use this Early Blooming Flower as Important Food Source Long the bane of meticulous lawn owners, Taraxacum officinale, or as we more commonly know it - the Dandelion - can be found just about everywhere around the world.  This hardy flower lies dormant in the winter but establishes quickly in the spring.  It is usually one of the first flowers you can

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New Grizzly Cam! Watch Grinder and Coola in their Upper Pond Habitat. Hi everyone!  We are happy to announce that we have a new and improved Grizzly Bear Habitat camera.  You can find the camera here:https://www.grousemountain.com/web-camsThis new camera is much higher resolution and you can also choose 'control' from the icons in the bottom right corner of the camera screen and take control of

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Record-breaking Multi-Grouse Grind Challenge! After an amazing 19-hour day on the Grouse Grind we are excited to announce that the 3rd annual Multi-Grouse Grind Challenge has helped raise over $21,000 for the BC Children’s Hospital Foundation Grind For Kid's program.This year the Multi-Grind Challenge saw a record 36 athletes seek their personal best! A new record was set at this year's event as

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Grinder and Coola's habitat expands to Lower Pond Today marked the 2016 opening of Grinder and Coola's (our two resident Grizzly Bears) Lower Pond habitat.  This is the second phase of their habitat and now allows them full access to their 5.5 acre habitat.Each year, due to snow load, we have to take down the fencelines for their habitats.  Then, in the spring, we need to put them back up.  We

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Grouse Mountain Announces Partnership with Suunto Sports Technology Company to showcase innovative products to the Grind community With the 2016 hiking season now underway following the opening of the Grouse Grind, Grouse Mountain is pleased to announce a new partnership with Finnish sport technology company Suunto. The one year agreement will provide the Grind community with an introduction to

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First Hummingbird Monitoring Session of 2016 Yesterday we held our first hummingbird monitoring session of 2016 and it was an incredible day for early May!  The Grouse Mountain Hummingbird Monitoring Project was started in 2005 and was established as part of the Hummingbird Monitoring Network of western North America.  The goal of the project (and our local project) is to monitor the long term

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Prepare for Lift Off! Summer of Flight Starts This Weekend We’re excited to kick off our Summer of Flight activities this long weekend at the Peak of Vancouver. Watch our flying feathered friends spread their wings and show their skills at the updated Birds In Motion Demonstration. See if you can spot one of our many resident species of birds on a Guided or Self-guided Bird Watching Tour. Get

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Grouse Grind is Now Open! The 2016 hiking season has officially kicked off with the opening of the Grouse Grind. What better way to enjoy this beautiful weather than with a visit to Mother Nature’s Stairmaster. Don’t worry, the views at the top are worth it. Celebrate your accomplishment with a nice cold drink and a big plate of nachos on Vancouver’s best patio at Altitudes Bistro. This summer

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