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around of something like this would be more comfortable, in that you are more familiar with what is in store for both your body and mind. Remembering when to turn it on. Remembering when to take a pull of that much needed power gel.Remembering not to burn yourself out in the first 4 kilometers of the run. While these would be the thoughts of the masses, I am not like most. The second go around has me

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The New iPhone App! Using the new app for the first time was so much fun. I woke up on a great Sunday and checked the new iPhone app to see what lifts were open, looked at the web cam (hopefully it'll be a nice day!) and checked the conditions… The app is a free download and available in the iTunes App Store. I had a great day skiing at Grouse Mountain and enjoyed the day and used the app to

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Grind For Good Put your Grinding to good use this summer The Grouse Grind officially opened last weekend. And while getting out on the Grind can do wonders for your fitness, the goodness need not stop there. Grouse Mountain has a Grind program or event that is sure to stimulate not just your cardiovascular heart, but also your charitable heart.Seek the Peak presented by Columbia Who’s afraid of

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large wind turbine – so large that you are able to ascend the 20-storey high tower via an elevator contained within its supporting shaft. You exit into a 36-person viewPOD™ atop the tower, suspended directly below the hub of the massive 125-foot (38-metre) long blades. The viewPOD is encased in glass, including a segment of the floor. The closest corresponding experience would be flying in the clear

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and salad that melted in my mouth. There were people, laughing and having a fantastic time, entering to win an amazing prize kit provided by Granville Island Brewing Company. Tamara from Granville Island Brewing Company shared with me that the lucky winner would receive a hat, cooler, t-shirt, mug and gift card for their retail store. The party didn't really get started until I met Frank

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, there were lots of dangers to Mortimer - everything from bad food to cars, dogs and even curious people.So the decision was made to move Mortimer back to his home country in the Okanagan.  We here at the Grouse Mountain Refuge for Endangered Wildlife decided to help out since we have a stock of live traps and are experienced in the safe trapping and relocation of wildlife.  One of our former Wildlife

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-inflammatory medication daily. Beta recently stopped eating so medicating was no longer reliably possible. Beta was sedated last week and taken to an off-site facility for a full veterinary evaluation. Sadly, blood tests and radiographs revealed the presence of new tumours in his left shoulder and his lungs. The condition was un-treatable and so for his own sake we took the decision to say goodbye to an

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-square foot pond – the only mountaintop skate pond in Vancouver – open this week, so stop by between 9:00 am and 10:00 pm daily for your winter fix. Hold hands on a romantic date, bring the kids up for some authentic winter fun or go solo and practice your triple axels (kidding). And as for that weather forecast, we’re looking at clear and cold conditions this week – perfect for the North Shore’s

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subspecies of Mule Deer and are found in forested mountains along the Pacific coast from California to Alaska.-Black-tailed males, called Bucks, grow new antlers each year. Females do not have antlers.-Black-tailed deer are ruminants with four stomachs. Their preferred food, which includes new plant growth, acorns, berries, fungi, grasses, lichen and nuts is digested multiple times to extract all of the

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hunters and have been known to take prey up to the size of small deer!  Their usual prey, however, are rabbits and hares.These little guys are growing quickly!  Be sure to stop by and check out our Birds in Motion demonstrations - often the falconers will bring the young birds out after the demonstrations to introduce them to being in front of a crowd.

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