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Easter Zone Camps Get your kids outside over the long weekend Grouse Mountain is coming to the rescue this Easter if you are looking for a great outdoor alternative to sugar-packed activities. Give your kids a break from chocolate mini egg consumption as Grouse Mountain is offering Easter Skiing and Riding Zone Camps for kids aged 7 to 14. From Good Friday to Easter Monday (April 6-9) kids can

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10th Annual Snowshoe Classic March 19th, 2008, North Vancouver BC – This Saturday, March 22nd, Grouse Mountain presents the 10th Annual Snowshoe Classic. This race is Canada’s oldest snowshoe race and attracts recreational participants of all ages and abilities. The 6 kilometre race takes participants through undulating terrain with a blend of heart pumping elevations and gentle plateaus. For

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magical experiences. Families can visit Santa’s workshop and meet reindeer, or take a sleigh-ride through our mystical alpine forest. Guests can also experience the tranquil beauty of skating on our 8,000 square foot mountaintop Ice Skating Pond, surrounded by snow-topped trees. Lighting up the festive period, the Grouse Mountain Chalet will also be aglow with our annual parade of Christmas trees in

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. Rethink also helps with start up costs for valuable support programs for young women experiencing breast cancer in our province. With your help, we can beat breast cancer one step at a time. Register as a relay team or as an individual online until July 14. 

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B.C. couple in their 80s break records by reaching the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro  October 3, 2012.Vancouver, B.C. - Local hiking enthusiasts Esther and Martin Kafer have successfully reached the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro, making them the oldest couple - 84 and 85 years old - known to have achieved this feat! The couple embarked on the trek up 19,354 ft. on Africa's tallest mountain as part of

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It's Time!  Grouse Mountain Opens For Skiing and Riding This Friday FridayNovember 17, 2011 North Vancouver, B.C. – The announcement that eager skiers and riders have been waiting for has arrived! Grouse Mountain is pleased to announce we are kicking off our 85th winter season on Friday November 18th from 3pm to 10pm. The first Skyride of the day for skiers and riders will be at 2:45pm. For this

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30 pounds of food each per day.  This will increase shortly to around 50 pounds a day.  The bears will be expected to put on an additional 20-30% of their body weight to prepare for winter.  This is anywhere from 150 to 300 pounds of extra bulk!Once we start to get much colder weather and the first snowfalls happen, we will taper off their food and then cut it off completely and this will trigger

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Seek the Peak Relay 2011 The 8th Annual Seek The Peak Relay raising funds for Rethink Breast Cancer is taking place on Saturday, July 16th.  The challenging 16-kilometer course starts on the beach at Ambleside Park in West Vancouver, winds its way through North Vancouver, then heads up the legendary Grouse Grind® to the Peak of Vancouver.  Seek the Peak is not strictly a race for elite athletes

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An Interactive Art Program in the Eye of the Wind! Meeting Planners International decided to make their day at Grouse Mountain extra special. On Thursday 17th May, Grouse Mountain hosted a group of meeting planners from around BC. They had a full day of activities planned at various locations around the city, and Grouse Mountain was selected as one of the venues because of its unique Hiwus Art

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Bears Still Snowed In! As if to say, Happy April Fools Day, more snow fell over the bear den and bear habitat.  We have begun to see a few signs of spring, but the snow has shown no sign of stopping.  Grinder and Coola's 'Bear Hotel' is still surrounded by over 15 feet of snow!  This makes it fairly dark inside, and when the boys have made their first exploratory journeys to the front part of

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