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This Day in History - July 13, 1954 In 1951, Grouse Mountain put in a chairlift to whisk skiers from the base of the mountain to the Grouse chalet. The chalet was owned by the Cromie family, which owned The Vancouver Sun, and the paper often carried ads promoting the chalet, the chairlift, and the free skiing lessons The Sun offered to its readers. In the summer, Grouse would lure the masses up

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Vote For Your Favourite Golden Ticket Finalist Voting is open Mar. 18-27, 2013 Our $10,000 Golden Ticket contest entry period has closed and voting has begun. Congratulations to Paul, Gareth, Steph, Enzo and Sarah for making it to the final round! Also thanks to all the Y2Players who entered our biggest giveaway ever.Each of the five Golden Ticket finalists has starred in a short video making

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Out There Helicopter Tours on Grouse Mountain JENNIFER VAN EVRA The Globe and Mail Published Friday, Jun. 01 2012, 7:01 PM EDT Last updated Monday, Jun. 18 2012, 10:21 AM EDT Give your weekend a serious lift on Grouse Mountain, where you can soar high above the city, the ocean and the snowy mountain peaks on a helicopter tour.Among the excursions are the Lions Peak Tour, where you get an up-close

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Vancouver's Best Patios With continuing summer sunshine it is prime time to get out and enjoy a patio experience. And as patios go, the view from Altitudes Bistro is unbeatable. With vantages of the Vancouver cityscape and across the Burrard inlet, kicking back and enjoying a meal or appies and a cool refreshing drink has never been more spectacular. The Vancouver Sun ranked Altitudes among its

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Bears Enjoying the Spring Snow!   Build a Snow Igloo for Napping In. Grinder and Coola have now been out of their hibernation for nearly a week.  They are enjoying themselves and playing in the large mounds of snow left in their hibernation habitat.  Sliding, wrestling and digging are just some of their favourite activities.Last night both bears started digging into one of the large mounds and

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Grinder and Coola Enter the Upper Pond Habitat... Birds in Motion arrive and are set to begin demonstrations... This morning Grinder and Coola, our two resident Grizzly Bears, entered the first of their two summer habitats - the Upper Pond area.  They spent a bit of time inside their den, anxiously watching us, as we opened the gate from the hibernation area into the Upper Pond Habitat and when

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Time to Lace Up Those Skates The Festiva Season is Almost Here! November has arrived and Vancouver's only mountaintop ice skating rink is now open! The ice skating rink will operate daily from 9am to 10pm. Come lace up your skates and glide around our 8,000 square foot pond to your heart’s content. This also means Christmas is around the corner and Grouse Mountain’s holiday wonderland will soon

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Bears Enjoy First Food of the Year On Wednesday, April 18th, Grinder and Coola, our two resident Grizzly Bears, enjoyed their first feed of 2012. Over the last two weeks Grinder and Coola have become increasingly active and showed all of the signs of being out of hibernation.  Once we are sure of this and are close to having their outdoor habitat ready we begin to help the bears get their

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Prepare for a race by... Relaxing? Well, not exactly, but alternating days of rest are some of the most important steps leading up to a race... Seek the Peak is just over a month away. I'd assume that most of you who are already registered for the race have begun some hill climbs, interval training or heck, maybe tightening your glutes on the Stairmaster for the Grouse Grind portion of the course

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runners and non-runners alike. I think part of me was hopeful, if I could get enough people to rally with me, we could all train together. There are strength in numbers, right? Luckily, when I mentioned it to my previous triathlon trainer he jumped at the chance to lace up. As a North Van local, he took me to a quaint park on the seventeen hundred block on Jones avenue for my first trial of trails (I

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