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Happy New Year To our Grouse Mountain Community, As we come to the end of the year, I want to take a moment to reflect on both the unprecedented challenges we faced as well as the accomplishments we achieved together. Looking back to the beginning of 2020, the winter season was off to a fabulous start. Our annual Family Day celebration and 24 Hours of Winter were both great successes and we were

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Grouse Mountain Grizzlies Awake from Hibernation Grinder and Coola complete 19th winter dormancy period at the Peak of Vancouver (North Vancouver) A sure sign of spring, Grouse Mountain’s two resident Grizzly bears, Grinder and Coola emerged from hibernation earlier this morning at the Peak of Vancouver. While Grinder and Coola are now out exploring their mountaintop habitat, please be reminded

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Symphony Sundays at Grouse Mountain Enjoy music on the mountaintop August 16 & September 6 Enjoy sounds of the symphony on the mountaintop with special performances by members of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Take in the views from our outside Natural Amphitheater as you enjoy the live music.Sunday, September 6th - Sitka String Quartet Set 1: 12:30pm Set 2: 1:30pmbook mountain

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Coola weighed in at 1045 lbs and Grinder at 885lbs.  This is close to their final winter weights.  We have begun providing the bears with lots of Pacific Silver-Fir branches in order to line their sleeping chamber.  We've seen them working on it already - Coola tends to do a lot of the work while Grinder likes to supervise and has been known to pull a branch or two out if he doesn't like what he's

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Spring Hours of Operation Our holiday hours for the Easter weekend are 8am to 9pm daily from Friday, April 2nd through Monday, April 5th.Beginning Tuesday, April 6th, our Downhill area will be available from 1pm to 9pm on weekdays and 9am to 9pm weekends. Our snowshoe trails will continue to be available from 9am to dusk daily, as conditions allow. Thank you for your ongoing commitment to the

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Grinder and Coola Weigh In Grinder and Coola, our two resident bears, are doing well now that they have emerged from their 2019/2020 hibernation on April 21st after a 144 day winter dormancy period.  On the day they emerged both bears were too excited to sit still on our weigh scale but since then we have started their daily routine of sitting for wildlife staff to record their weight.  Grinder

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winter here at the Peak of Vancouver.” As a legacy event that began with the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, 24 Hours of Winter kicks off Saturday at 8:00 am and runs through 10:00 pm on Sunday with a variety of special activities including all-night skiing, snowboarding and ice skating; snowshoe tours; a spectacular torch parade; special apres celebration; morning yoga and much more. New to the

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OFFICIAL RESULTS Female1st Place: Frederique Joncas2nd Place: Sara Niblock3rd Place: Kate MacmillanMale1st Place: Pierce Smith2nd Place: Darren Smith3rd Place: William Hooley Name 1st Run 2nd Run Evan Barker 28.47 37.22 Andrew Bibby 29.77 28.91 Christian Blanchard 30.63 32.19 Kody Botteril 26.59 27.91 Mark Bramwell

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First hummingbird monitoring session of 2021 held Yesterday morning we held our first Hummingbird Monitoring and Banding session of the year here at the Grouse Mountain Refuge for Endangered Wildlife.  It was our first session since August of 2019 due to the Covid-19 pandemic and it did not disappoint!Grouse Mountain is part of the Hummingbird Monitoring Network which has a group of monitoring

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interactive partner activations. This year’s event features a cash purse for both male and female top finishers. •1st place: $1500 •2nd place: $750 •3rd place: $250 In addition, a course record incentive has generously been provided by the event’s title sponsor, VPG Realty Inc. An additional $2,500 will be awarded to the top male and female finishers should they break the current course records (Male: 25:01

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