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Ready or Not... Husband and Wife team, Michelle and Gareth begin chronicling their journey to Seek the Peak. Hey folks, Gareth and Michelle here! We will be blogging about our training for this year's "Seek the Peak" at Grouse Mountain and give a recap of the event once completed. Before we get on to the first post, how about we give you a bit of info on who we are and why we are doing this crazy

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the slopes. Family Day at Grouse Mountain begins with a tasty by donation Pancake Breakfast before jumping on the Skyride to a snowy world of family fun that includes family photo opportunities, snow painting station, scavenger hunts, a puck shoot out, Terrain Park Jams and a special family après dinner in the Timber Room.“This brand new holiday is a great opportunity for British Columbians to

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Last Year's Champs Words of Gingerbread wisdom from Melanie Roy, one of last year's SOS Children's Gingerbread Village winning team members. The look and feel of your Gingerbread House was so polished, how many people on your team had baked and built gingerbread houses to this scale before?  My sister Silvie and I did all the baking and assembly. We’ve been baking together since we were little

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active, and because temperatures are cooler, less energy is spent in staying cool during the long demanding flights of migration. It's the equivalent of going for a late evening or early morning job before the heat of the day hits.As always, there is safety in numbers so many species, or even mixes of species, migrate together and stay in touch through contact calls. Due to poor visibility, contact

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a photo and a 100-word or less paragraph. Entries must be received between Feb. 22nd and Mar. 7, 2013. Vote for Your Favourite Five entrants will be selected to go on to the final round where each will star in a short video illustrating why they Y2Play. Between March 18-27, these videos will be voted on by members of the public, a select panel of judges and Grouse Mountain before one lucky winner

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first arrived at the refuge.  They were so small!  When they arrived both bears weighed 40 to 50 lbs.  Today they are between 750 to 900 lbs!  That's quite an increase.The Refuge has expanded and grown a lot since those early days of two young grizzly bear cubs.  The next year Cari and Boo arrived and spent the winter before moving on to the Kicking Horse Grizzly Refuge.  The year after that our pack

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the skiing and riding junkie in your life. A ski or ride lesson with one of our Grouse Mountain expert instructors can teach them to master everything from moguls to rails in the Terrain Park.Spy Platoon goggles will let them see the breathtaking views like never before.Swany Tempest gloves combine smooth grain leather grip with a GoreTex interior.A Snow Pack of 5 or 10 lift tickets can be used on

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beaches on Ambleside, runners migrate upwards to the strenuous Grouse Grind® before finally climbing the Peak of Grouse Mountain.  “This race is an excellent metaphor for the battle one can experience in the fight against breast cancer,” says Grouse Mountain General Manager, Michael Cameron. “While the race is challenging, it is open to all ages and abilities in a unique relay format. Seek the Peak is a

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a quick drink or a quick bath! Barn Swallows are the most wide-spread species of swallow and can be found throughout the Northern Hemisphere in the summertime. They migrate south for the winter before returning each spring. When they arrive at the start of May they will begin to gather mouthfuls of mud which they use to construct nests that are attached to buildings, usually under the eaves or

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arrived now could I?Friends like these…As we drove up to the parking lot, I found myself nervous. I hadn’t ran with Graham since we did the Nike Women’s Marathon for charity many years before and I definitely was not in the same shape nor had the same body to work with as I did back then. Not to mention this is a man that has since started a running group that plans to run 230km in Costa Rica raising

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