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operate more sustainably and help conserve our natural environment:Grouse Mountain is serviced by two public transit routes with regular service running to and from the base every half hour. We run a complimentary shuttle from Downtown Vancouver during the summer and along Nancy Greene Way during busy periods in the winter. We installed a Leviton electric vehicle charging station in 2013 that electric

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Summer Favourites Return May Long Weekend Launch of Summer Season at the Peak of Vancouver Summer season has returned to Grouse Mountain! Beginning Saturday you can enjoy summer favourites like our World Famous Lumberjack Show, the awe-inspiring Birds in Motion Demonstration, Owl Interpretive Talks, Bear Ranger Talks, Eco-walks, Heli-Tours and much more. Returning this summer is our newest

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First Hummingbird Monitoring Session of 2016 Yesterday we held our first hummingbird monitoring session of 2016 and it was an incredible day for early May!  The Grouse Mountain Hummingbird Monitoring Project was started in 2005 and was established as part of the Hummingbird Monitoring Network of western North America.  The goal of the project (and our local project) is to monitor the long term

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and abilities can have some fun. We checked in with Marcus, our Terrain Park Manager about what you can expect from Canada's first natural-feature based terrain park, located on Buckhorn. "We've currently got our three permanent wood features in place, which include a wall ride, a log pole jam and a flat log. We also have some movable round log features, a rainbow log and picnic tables scattered

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The Science of Sliding Grouse Mountain's Sliding Zone is the perfect blend of fun and learning On my way to work today I was chatting with my son (12) about what makes a field trip “great!” Fun, freedom and rides were his top three wishes. He asked what I was doing at work today, and I said I was being trained on our new Sliding Zone. He looked at me with shock and delight, and said “You are

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Manager Grant Wahl. “Mother Nature delivered over 40cm of snow in the past week and with cold temperatures continuing in the forecast, we’ll be working hard to open up more terrain for skiing and riding soon.” The recent snowfall is also good news for local snowshoers. The Snowshoe Grind and Blue Grouse Loop will also be opening tomorrow, November 29th at 9:00am with access via the Skyride. Enhancements

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little more about our birds on Grouse Mountain?  Then please participate in one of our guided Eco-walks which will be bird focused this day.  The Vancouver Bird Festival (http://www.vanbirdfest.com/) is hosted this year in conjunction with the 27th International Ornithological Conference being held at the Vancouver Convention Centre for the week of August 19th - 26th.  This conference sees thousands of

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Young Barn Swallows have now Fledged Getting Ready to Migrate! A little while ago we brought news that our Barn Swallow Web Camera was not going to work as planned this year.  This was because instead of using the nest that the camera was focused on, the Barn Swallows decided to literally 'nest on camera' and built a nest right on top of our webcam!!!They built the nest really quickly (out of mud

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Hummingbird monitoring sessions underway   A few weeks back we began our 2017 Hummingbird Monitoring station here at Grouse Mountain. We are one station of many that are involved in the North American wide Hummingbird Monitoring Network. It was a slow start to our season because of our late snowpack around the hummingbird gardens.Even since the start of the season, however, numbers have been

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Grinder & Coola Awaken from Hibernation 15 Looking well, Grouse Mountain Grizzlies exited their hibernation den on April 9th, 2016 Last week the decision was made to open the bear's hibernation den door. Preparations ramped up readying the bears' habitat area, which despite warm temperatures was still very snowy. The bears had been stirring a little bit more each day and it was evident they

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