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Seek the Peak:  Nicole's training diary Week Two Seek the Peak participant Nicole van Zanten is documenting her weekly training leading up to the big day. Have a read of her second training diary entry below:Week 2: Breaking The Route Into Three Pieces In Week 2 of the Seek the Peak training program, the recommended weekend run route is to begin at Cleveland Dam, tackle Nancy Greene and head

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, whom they then try to further impress with a short powerful flight.  After mating, the females leave the males territory to raise the chicks on their own.Grouse chicks are born with soft fluffy body feathers and shortly after hatching can follow their mother around.  They then forage on grasses, berries and budding leaves both on the ground and in shrubs and trees.  We've seen families of 8-10 up

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Mark Your Calendar for Seek the Peak Training Wednesday night sessions start April 9, 2014 Seek the Peak takes place on June 15, 2014. Get yourself race-ready to conquer those hills with Seek the Peak Training Sessions. Led by the amazing trainers at Kintec, and supported by Vega Nutrition, this 10-week program showcases areas of the course and provides guidance on growing stamina, speed and

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Get Off the Beaten Path with O2X  #risehigher on July 11, 2015 Technical. Rugged. O2X is 838m (2,750 ft) of elevation gain over 8 km.Registration is open for O2X Summit Challenge - a primal trail race for runners tackling a professionally designed course. Starting at the base of Grouse Mountain, racers trek across multi-pitch rock scrambles, rivers, steep glades, streams and other naturally

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Remember: Use Your Trail Sense Grouse Grind season kicks off at 6:15am on May 17, 2014 With the beginning of the Grouse Grind season, we’d like to take this opportunity to remind our Grind community about the importance of using your trail sense when navigating the Grouse Mountain trail network. For a list of Grouse Grind facts, frequently asked questions and helpful hints, please click here or

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population numbers of hummingbirds with a focus on the Rufous Hummingbird.The project involves gently catching hummingbirds as they come to the feeder, taking some measurements, looking at the overall health of the birds, placing a very lightweight band on their leg (each band only weighs 5/100's of a gram!) and releasing the bird on its way.Normally we'd expect to get just a few hummingbirds in the early

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that increases our output by over 40% with concentrated top to bottom coverage.” Snow passes for the 2015/16 season will be available to skiers and riders at the best fall pricing until October 18th. In addition to the benefits passholders traditionally receive, including discounts on rentals, retail, food and beverage and mountaintop activities, we have added some fantastic new perks: •One

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for some weather protection. The boxes should also be at least 10 feet off the ground to be attractive to the bats. It can take a few seasons for the boxes to be noticed and used. You can watch below the boxes for signs of guano and to check quickly shine a flashlight into the boxes during the day to see if they are occupied. Please remember the bats are trying to sleep, however, and don't

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Training advice from our most committed Grouse Grinders The Clearly.ca Grouse Grind Mountain RunSunday, September 13th  Leading up to the 25th-annual Grouse Grind Mountain Run, we've asked our most committed, most enthusiastic Grouse Grinders to give us some of their best advice when it comes to conquering the Grouse Grind:Atessa Marashi:Atessa Marashi was our top female finisher at the Multi

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down a steep and open mountainside. This image bears little resemblance to a typical hiking trail on the North Shore and there lies the problem.To get a snow avalanche, we need three things: a moderately steep slope, the right snow conditions and a trigger. 1) Most frequently, avalanches happen on slopes between 30 and 45 degrees or the equivalent of a blue or black diamond ski run. The beautiful

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