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journey from Timberly at City Sports & Physiotherapy Clinic.Top 5 Pre-run & mid-race injury prevention tips 1. Warm-up – Before any given run, you need to ensure your nervous system, muscles, tendons, ligaments and joints are ready for the load you are about to put on them to avoid shock to the system. A slow jog is not enough to warm things up. Legs swings, marching drills, hurdler steps

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offer great vantage points.Flickers lay 3-6 eggs and incubate them for 11 to 13 days before the young birds hatch.   After hatching, the young will stay in the nest for up to 28 days (4 weeks) before fledging and leaving the nest to follow the adults around and learn foraging behavior.  At the moment we estimate the birds in this nest, three of the little guys, to be about three weeks or three and a

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crawl through so he spent a bit of time making a larger opening through the snow before emerging for the first time.  Both bears then enjoyed their first feed of 2018 - carrots and lettuce!  This will stimulate their appetites and metabolism and help them ramp back up to a full diet in a few weeks time. We encourage you to stop by and see them in their hibernation habitat!  For the moment they are in

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Save on a 5-Day or 10-Day Snow Pack A Not-Seen-Before Discount on Snow Packs for 48 Hours Only To celebrate the start of the 2015/16 snow season, Grouse Mountain is offering discounted 5-Day and 10-Day Snow Packs for a very limited time. Until Saturday, November 21 at 9am, get 10% off a Snow Pack. This is a deal that has not seen before. Don’t delay…call 604.980.9311, buy online or visit Guest

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Baby bird season grouse underway It's the time year when we start babies appearing all over the mountain - the days are longer and forage is showing up. We have our resident pair of Barn Swallows back nesting on our bear kitchen building! They are reusing their old nest from last year, but it needed a few renovations before they moved in. Swallows will take mouthfuls of mud and combine it with

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species.  Last season we had a honey  bee camera and a nesting Barn Swallow camera.  This year we thought ourselves clever in getting our Swallow Camera up and in place well before the Barn Swallow's arrived in late April/early May.  We carefully placed the camera across from the nest that the pair had used last year - located on top of one of our mountaintop buildings and waited for the birds to arrive

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for ‘Scandinavia’ Where do they live? Snowy owls are found throughout the northern hemisphere in North America and Eurasia. They spend their summers on the arctic tundra for breeding season, before migrating south for winter at lower latitudes, including the south coast of British Columbia.What do they eat? Lemmings, other small rodents, and birds. Because their stomachs have strong acid, snowy owls

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Grinder and Coola Enter 17th Hibernation Period On November 22nd, 2017 Grinder and Coola, our two resident Grizzly Bears, entered their 17th hibernation period at the Grouse Mountain Refuge for Endangered Wildlife. Grinder and Coola had a great 2017 in their 5.5 acre habitat and helped educate hundreds of thousands of visitors to the refuge on the plight faced by wild Grizzly Bears. Just before

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involve? Most of the activity has been focused on brush cutting – think extreme weed-whacking! Many of these runs have not been touched since they were initially cut 20 to 25 years ago. That’s a lot of time for things to get overgrown. When things like bushes, shrubs and grasses grow taller on designated runs, it means that we need a certain depth of snow in order to cover it all before the run can be

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, before going on to study geography in university, working in environmental research and the tech industry, and returning here. The memories from that field trip have stuck with me through the years, and I’m thrilled to be able to help students experience hands-on, play-based learning at Grouse Mountain now. Learning about wildlife and bears of North America is exciting, but learning about bears of

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