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The Longest Winter Season On The North Shore Just Got Even Longer!  Grouse Mountain Unveils Spring Snow Play Zone As Grinder & Coola Emerge From Hibernation April 27, 2012. North Vancouver, B.C. - Mother Nature did not disappoint this winter at the Peak of Vancouver delivering over 11 meters of snow to Grouse Mountain during the course of the season. With an impressive base still on the

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22 Grinders. 22 Days. 22 Unique Stories Be featured here and win with ClearlyContacts.ca and Grouse Mountain So you've decided to enter this year's ClearlyContacts.ca Grouse Ground Mountain Run? We can respect that, but what's more… we can reward that.Starting September 1st we'll be featuring a different, unique Grouse Grinder who has entered the race on this blog. Every day a new face, every day

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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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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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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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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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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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