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Happy Snowshoe Birthday, Paul! Y2Play Golden Ticket Winer, Paul Soukoreff goes for a celebratory snowshoe for his birthday with his wife, Esther. It was pure icing to spend my Golden 50th birthday at one of my favourite places and with one of my favourite persons on the planet. Mountains, fresh air, snow and sunshine… it doesn't get better! After the hike up Dam Mountain we topped off the time

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A record year for Seek The Peak’s 10th anniversary Race winners and fundraisers tackle the course and breast cancer Undaunted by 4,100 feet of elevation gain and 16 kilometres from Ambleside to the peak of Grouse Mountain, a record 804 racers conquered hills and fought against breast cancer today as part of the 2013 Seek The Peak presented by Columbia. Racers endured the challenging and scenic

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Our Loyalty Offer Renew your Annual Local's Pass at 2013/14 rates - limited time offer! The sun is shining, spring is in the air and summer is just around the corner, so you know what that means: it's time to renew your Grouse Mountain Annual Local's Pass. Our Local’s Pass rates will increase slightly this year but we’re holding rates for those who are renewing. Extend your current pass for a

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Grouse Grind Mingler Night: Music Bingo Edition Another gorgeous evening at Grouse Mountain! Wednesday nights are always fun for Grinders. The Grouse Grind Mingler Nights are popular with regular Grinders and people who take the Skyride up to be a part of the action. There was music, food, and prizes supplied by Granville Island Brewing Company for music bingo. I had a delicious chickpea burger

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Omega The Wolf A Life That Inspired Respect and Awe for Wolves  We are very saddened to report that our oldest wolf Omega passed away early this morning. He was discovered deceased at first light within the Grouse Mountain wolf habitat where he and his pack mates found sanctuary. At 15 & 1/2 years old, Omega lived to be one of the oldest wolves in the world. Omega was born in captivity in

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Busy Week Leads up to Summer Opening Weekend Last week was full of preparations getting ready for our first long-weekend full of summer activities.The Birds in Motion have now arrived and are flying in their demonstrations at 1:30pm, 3:30pm and 5:30pm. This year we have some really amazing birds - everything from hawks, falcons, owls, vultures all the way up in size to Bald Eagles!  We also have

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Grinding it out Week 7 of Seek the Peak training This week we did the Grind (get your mind out of the gutter! We mean the infamous trail up to the top of Grouse Mountain). As always, Michelle and I started with a dynamic warm up consisting of lateral and Ventral/Dorsal (front to back) leg swings, toe touches, walking lunges, high knees and followed with multiple static stretches. After we were

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Speed training and nutritional talk with Vega! Week 8 of Seek the Peak Training The group met under the breezeway at the Whole Foods in Park Royal at the Whistler Water tent.I could not make the training that night, so Michael from the group, shared with me all the good times that were had for week 8 (thanks Michael!). Vega gave an amazing talk about nutrition before everyone went jogging down

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Book Your Two-Day Avalanche Awareness Training Are you interested in learning how to evaluate avalanche conditions, analyze forecasts and plan for all weather conditions? Join us March 8 & 9; or March 22 & 23 as our experienced team will teach you the basics with our two-day Avalanche Skills Training Level 1 Course. Designed for recreationists with basic training, our course provides

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Seek the Peak: Halfway There! The Grouse Grind is open as we approach Seek the Peak... Well folks, we have reached the halfway point of our training series for Seek the Peak. We only have five more training sessions left with the fine people at Kintec. Lots of progress has been made, we can already see and hear the improvements from our fellow STPers. So, whether you consider it downhill or

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