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Our New Honeybees Have Arrived on Grouse Mountain! Today we had about 120,000 new guests on Grouse Mountain - 16 new hives of Honey Bees!Their arrival marks the expansion of our honey bee program and the arrival of our Small Wonder's summer starting this weekend.  The bee's will live here year round but of course will be most active in the summertime when they will pollinate our flowers and

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will be awarded in the following categories: 19 and under 20 - 29 years 30 - 39 years 40 - 49 years 50 - 59 years 60 - 69 years 70 + years and up Awards & After Party Après awards in the Timber Room.In case of wonderful weather, the awards will be held outdoors by the ice rink. A BBQ will be set up for everyone to enjoy!To register, please visit Guest Services or call 604.980.9311.

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Grouse Grind Champion Keeps Title for Another Year Sebastian Salas retains his title and Stephanie Hamilton earns her first at the annual BMO Grouse Grind Mountain Run In the most anticipated BMO Grouse Grind Mountain Run to date, Sebastian Salas was able to hold onto his title as champion. Despite tough competition from USA Mountain Runner of the year (three years running) Joseph Gray, local

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Grouse Mountain Refuge for Endangered Wildlife Turns 10 Years Old! This week marked the 10th anniversary for the Grouse Mountain Refuge for Endangered Wildlife.  The Refuge was founded in 2001 with the construction of our Grizzly Bear habitat and the arrival of Grinder and Coola during the first week of September that year.I've posted some of the early photos of Grinder and Coola after they

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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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a healthy and typical hibernation period,” says Wildlife Director and veterinarian Dr. Ken Macquisten. “They began eating roughage a few days ago to jump-start their digestive and metabolic systems, and based on their playfulness that seemed to work.” This marks 12 years since the orphaned grizzlies were rescued and became residents of Grouse Mountain’s Refuge for Endangered Wildlife. “This year

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Meet the Ambassadors Round Two... With the help of Columbia Sportswear we have launched our first year of the Grouse Grind Ambassadors program. We asked out to the Grind community, "Why do you Grind?" and were sent responses of every kind. Inspirational, recreational, charitable, you name it. With all these great responses, we were tasked to select only ten Ambassadors. Our new Grind Ambassadors

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Ring in 2012 at the Peak of Vancouver Space is still available for our New Year's Eve Gala. The New Year is just around the corner. Have you decided how you’ll ring in 2012? If you have yet to make plans, we suggest the Peak of Vancouver. There are still spaces available for our New Year's Eve Gala early and second seatings. You can start early leaving more time to celebrate or join us for the

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every time they passed by its vicinity.  So we had to do a bit of encouraging via food to get them to warm up to the scale.  Our goal is to have them not care that scale is there and view it as part of the habitat.Grinder is at that point already and just the other day he stepped right up onto the scale and we were able to get a weight on him for the first time in several years - 844.5 lbs!  A good

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