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donation hints:Most Needed Items: winter jackets and coatswinter footwearwinter gloves scarveswinter pantsa wide range of sizes are required but those most in need are of elementary school ages – 5 to 13 years old.items to fit teenagers are also gratefully accepted.popular and well-known brand names are preferred Required Condition of Items: clean, washed or dry-cleaned without any stains or markings

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Avid Grouse Grinders Raise a Mountain of Money for B.C. Children’s Hospital November 16, 2011, Grouse Mountain, North Vancouver B.C. - The Grouse Grind community came together this year for another great season on North America’s most hiked trail in an effort to raise valuable funds for B.C. Children’s Hospital. Grouse Mountain and B.C. Children’s Hospital are pleased to announce that the

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to a visit with Santa Claus and much more, we are proud to be known as Vancouver’s North Pole while giving back to our local community.” Since no holiday experience is complete without a meal alongside friends and family, guests are encouraged to place a reservation for the Breakfast With Santa program which runs from Sunday, December 14th through Wednesday, December 24th. Back for another season

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Y2Play Is Back! Y2Play 2013/14 is now on sale. It`s that time of year again! This has been a fabulous snow season – in fact the last three have all been great. Our Y2Play Pass has returned even stronger this year. We asked ourselves, how can we make the best value snowpass on the continent even better? With up to 80% savings to ski or ride the rest of this season and all of next, it`s not an

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Season Extended Ski or ride at Grouse Mountain through April 29 With a 573 cm base at the Peak and a 462 cm base at the Plateau, Grouse Mountain has oodles of snow for fantastic skiing, riding and snowshoeing. So we’ve extended our winter season to April 29, 2012. We all know that spring skiing is some of the best skiing out there. Capping off a day of skiing or riding with a cool drink on a

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open from 9am to 10pm seven days a week for skiing and riding.“Mother Nature delivered us a great present this past weekend with over 30 centimetres of new snow and that combined with our substantial snowmaking has allowed us to provide an early start to the winter season", says Grouse Mountain General Manager Michael Cameron. "We know our Passholders and winter enthusiasts have been itching to get

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-edge interpretive programs that make learning about nature fun and fascinating. More than 15,000 British Columbia School Children visit on field trips each year. BIO’sGrinder Grinder was found in 2001 in Invermere, BC. He was wandering alone on a logging road, dehydrated, thin, weak and weighing only 4.5 kg. His mother was never found so we’ll probably never know why he was alone. Grinder is outgoing

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birds of prey that work together and hunt in a group.  They are known to have one bird chase the prey towards the others that are waiting to pounce.  Here is a compilation shot of one of the Harris' Hawks going after a piece of food in mid-air - note the aerobatics! While the Harris' Hawks put on a great demonstration of concentration and maneuverability, the top aerodynamic abilities have to go to

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that it is time to begin bulking up for their winter dormancy. This time of year they enter a physiological state known as hyperphagia, which is really just a fancy term for pigging out.  They will eat an increasing amount of food as they very quickly put on body weight for the cold weather ahead.We've upped their daily food intake to match their increased consumption and they are now getting around

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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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