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Celebrating 18 Years of Grinder and Coola at Grouse Mountain!
exploring at first but they quickly settled in and never looked back! Today the bears are at home in their environment and can often be spotted swimming in their ponds, frolicking on their fields or just having a bear nap up in the woods.We hope that many of you have had the chance to visit them over the years and have seen them grow and develop here. We'd love to hear your stories!
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Happy Thanksgiving from Grinder and Coola!
Happy Thanksgiving from Grinder and Coola! Grinder and Coola, our two resident Grizzly Bears, have now entered their period of Hyperphagia - which is just a fancy technical word for pigging out. While we only can justify eating to excess on holidays like Thanksgiving, Grinder and Coola do it for over a month each year as they bulk up for winter. They have begun to put on a lot of weight for
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Seek the Peak Training: Injury Prevention Tips
journey from Timberly at City Sports & Physiotherapy Clinic.Top 5 Pre-run & mid-race injury prevention tips 1. Warm-up – Before any given run, you need to ensure your nervous system, muscles, tendons, ligaments and joints are ready for the load you are about to put on them to avoid shock to the system. A slow jog is not enough to warm things up. Legs swings, marching drills, hurdler steps
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Signs of Spring
chest band as well for accent. The females have dark brown rather than black feathers and do not have a distinct band on their chest. The Varied Thrush lives in the dark coastal rain forests of BC - it is an omnivore and it's diet consists of seeds, berries and lots of insects. They breed higher up in the sub-alpine but during the winter months can be found in the lowlands of Greater Vancouver
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Summer is Here…It’s Time to Patio!
a simple and refreshing cocktail, Grouse Mountain serves up a beautifully chilled Raspberry Mint Ice Tea which is not only thirst-quenching, but easy to go down. Or, you can always go with the ever-so popular mint Mojito or Moscow Mule, which are sure to please. Keep things cool and beat the heat with a watermelon or cucumber infused cocktail. Our choice is an Altitude’s Bistro special, called
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Seek the Peak Training: Inspiration
. It didn’t matter if I was pulling my cute blonde wig over my bare head as I got ready for a day at the office, sitting down in a comfy chair on the 6th floor of the Cancer Agency and rolling up my sleeve to present my tired veins to the sweet chemo nurse, or if I was staring down the handle of a fork on the end of which a bite of food sat in all of its tasteless glory. The words I repeated
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October is Bat Month
have 16 and on Grouse Mountain five species have been observed over the years. Grouse Mountain offers a good home for some of our tree-dwelling bats and the most numerous of those are Silver-haired bats and Hoary bats. We have also seen Little Brown bats and Big Brown bats up here as well. Grouse also offers a good fueling station for bats moving through on migration. Many of British Columbia's
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Bears Begin Winter Preparations
habitat and packing it away for the winter. If we were to leave it up the weight of the snow over the winter would destroy it. So from here on out the bears will be spending lots of time preparing their den for winter.This week we will be giving them lots of Pacific Silver-fir branches, which are their favourite for making into their hibernation bed. We give them a large pile and the bears do all of
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How to Plan the Ultimate Holiday Party
How to Plan the Ultimate Holiday Party Relax, We Got This!Are you in charge of planning a holiday party to remember? To help kick start your party planning, we have come up with some stress-free tips on planning the perfect off-site party. 1.To budget or not to budget…that is the question. While coming up with a rough budget is a good idea, you may want to keep in mind that depending on the
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Tyee’s Sam Mulligan Takes Home Silver at the FIS Alpine Junior World Ski Championships
, Switzerland. Mulligan finished just +0.02 seconds from first-place, ending the day with a silver medal. Attending the World Junior Championships is an important step in the development of our next generation of athletes as they prepare for future World Cup and Olympic competition. Medalling at the World Junior Championships is regarded as a milestone for athletes, who often end up as podium-contenders on