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Ropes Adventure and Mountain Ziplines. Indoor gatherings of 50 or 50% of space capacity (whichever is greater) are now permitted in BC, meaning that larger functions such as weddings or corporate events can also take place. For more information on how to book your wedding, meeting, or team building event at Grouse Mountain, visit here. We look forward to seeing you on the mountain this summer!

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all of their own when it comes to owls.  They are found on every continent except Antarctica (where it's too cold).  Cleo enjoys a warm indoor aviary to fly around in during the cold winter months and then moves to an open aired aviary outside for the summer. Odin - Barred owl Odin arrived here at Grouse Mountain on April 25th of last year as a little two week old chick!  We hand raised him to be a

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the world.And therefore sometime in January 2001 both Grinder and Coola were born! Later, in May of that year, they were rescued when they were orphaned in the wild and in September 2001 they were brought to the Grouse Mountain Refuge For Endangered Wildlife which they still inhabit to this day! This year marks their 20th birthday - or should we say... bearthday?  Have a great 20th boys! Coola

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Grinder and Coola Emerge from 19th Hibernation After a long 144 day hibernation, 19 year-old male grizzly bears Grinder and Coola emerged on April 21st from their slumber into a different world. Despite the lack of people present to greet them upon digging their way out of their den due to the temporary COVID-19 closure, the two massive Grizzlies were happy to frolic in the remaining snow and

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as far south as Brazil each year!Some of these species migrate at night for protection and often they are in large flocks.  Even at night up here at Grouse Mountain it is common to hear bird songs at night as migration happens!Recently we also hear the first Grouse of the year making it's bellowing 'whomp whomp whomp' sounds and establishing a breeding territory.It is a fun time of year as each day

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.  Odin was hand raised by our wildlife staff and came from the Northern Spotted Owl breeding program locally here in BC.Cleo is a ten year old female Barn Owl.  Cleo was raised on Vancouver Island as an ambassador before coming to Grouse Mountain in 2013.Athena is one year old female Great-horned Owl.  Athena came to the Wildlife Refuge last year after being hatched in Ontario.Learn a lot more about

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Bears Enter Summer habitat for 2020 Season let the exploration begin! On May 8th our two Grizzly Bears, Grinder and Coola, entered their large summer habitat earlier than previous seasons.  The bears, awake and out of hibernation since April 21st, welcomed the opportunity to explore their familiar habitat and to play in the large mounds of snow that are still present.The new habitat includes

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Grinder and Coola enter their upper pond habitat Thanks to the hard work of our crews we were able to get Grinder and Coola's (our two Grizzly Bears that inhabit that refuge) large 2.5 acre Upper Pond habitat set-up nice and early for them.  Both bears came out of hibernation on April 2nd and were in their hibernation habitat while we set-up the larger space.  Due to large amounts of snowfall we

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program in the first few years.Being enterprising in his approach and always looking for new opportunities, Johnsen looked for ideas fromelsewhere in the industry. He decided to focus on children’s programs – providing safe reliable instructors inwhich parents could be confident. The program was launched and with Johnsen’s knack for promotionthey started seeing 400 kids per day on weekends within two

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sleeping inside the den each evening but spend their days outside watching as spring develops here on Grouse Mountain.  The bears are not as hungry as you might think as their digestive tracks have been in shut down mode during their winter sleep.  Each day they are receiving several large heads of Romaine lettuce in addition to root vegetables such as carrots and sweet potatoes.  This roughage helps

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