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Grouse Mountain Moment Contest - July 23 Congratulations to David Chew from Coquitlam David's Best Grouse Mountain story... "My best Grouse moment was when the download price was raised to $10. I used to only do the Grind once a week or so if that, so I thought the increase of price was a negative thing. However the increase pressured me to buy a pass and now I am going 3 times a week!!! If it

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Grouse Mountain Moment Contest - July 29 Congratulations to the Grant Family and Mina Difraksh from Coquitlam The Grant Family's Best Grouse Moment... Our family's best moment atop of Grouse happened July 6th. It was our oldest's 4th birthday and Daddy surprised us all with annual passes. He kept the trip up and passes under wraps from all of us till the morning of. It was the kids' first trip up

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Spring Approaches The bears are stirring, the weather is warming Whew, things have been a little hectic here on Grouse Mountain for the past few weeks with first the Olympic Games and now the Paralympic Games. For the entire Olympic period, the NBC Today Show was broadcasting from the mountain top and there was a flurry of activity everywhere you looked. Yet, through this all Grinder and Coola

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Make a Resolution to Be Safe in the Snow Register today for our Avalanche Skills Training Course Are you interested in understanding how to evaluate avalanche conditions, analyzing forecasts and planning? Let our experienced team help you get some of the basics with our 2-Day Avalanche Skills Training Level 1 Course. The course provides an entry-level decision-making framework that is based on

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Hummingbirds return to Grouse Mountain! First sighting of 2010 hummingbirds on Grouse Mountain! For the past five years Grouse Mountain has sponsored a Hummingbird Monitoring Project that has led to interesting research and findings about hummingbirds in a sub-alpine environment. Every two weeks our wildlife staff go out and count hummingbirds coming to feeders, band each bird with a microscopic

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feathered wildlife has also been busy and we've spotted the first young Robins out of their nest within the last week and some young barn swallows within their mud-nests. Just the other day we saw a pair of Dark-eyed Juncos feeding their young in a dense shrub near the Grizzly Bear Habitat. The shrub offers excellent protection from predators and if it weren't for spotting the adults entering the shrub

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Save the Date for Artists For Conservation This remarkable festival returns for 2014 Mark your calendars! The fourth-annual Artists For Conservation Festival returns to Grouse Mountain Friday, September 26th to Sunday, October 5th. Join us at the Peak of Vancouver for this extraordinary 10-day art and environmental education event that immerses visitors in nature through a lecture series

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Grouse Mountain Moment Contest - Aug. 5 Congratulations to Sacha DeVoretz from North Vancouver Sacha's Best Grouse Moment was... I am the biggest fan of Grouse mountain in all seasons. One of my favorite memories is a photo attached with this email. I love Grouse mountain in the summer time when I am doing the Grind and can view through the trees the city as I approach the 3/4 mark, as the years

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Grinder & Coola Emerge from Hibernation April 28, 2008, North Vancouver, BC - Grinder and Coola, resident grizzly bears at Grouse Mountain’s Refuge for Endangered Wildlife, came out of hibernation on Friday afternoon after their longest hibernation period to date. Extreme snow conditions and unseasonably cool temperatures have a big impact on the length of their hibernation. After digging

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resort. With guest number exceeding over 9,000 on December 30th alone, it is safe to say that old St. Nick over-delivered.Skiers, snowboarders, snowshoers and those just looking to take in some alpine air came together throughout December to help Grouse Mountain realize a new all time record for the month, up some 12% over the previous record, set in 2007.“Well, we knew we had the snow for an epic

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