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Road to Seek the Peak: Week 6
brief talk on hydration and the importance of a proper warm-up before training. Here is a little recap for those who missed it. Hydration: It is best to hydrate consistently throughout the day rather than packing/consuming a lot of water only during your training. This means consuming about 2-3L of water per day. A standard water bottle is 500-750ml, so keep one nearby, and fill and drink it 4x per
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Grinder and Coola Emerge from 17th Hibernation on Grouse Mountain
crawl through so he spent a bit of time making a larger opening through the snow before emerging for the first time. Both bears then enjoyed their first feed of 2018 - carrots and lettuce! This will stimulate their appetites and metabolism and help them ramp back up to a full diet in a few weeks time. We encourage you to stop by and see them in their hibernation habitat! For the moment they are in
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Grouse Parks Named #3 Terrain Park in the Northwest by Newschoolers
Grouse Parks Named #3 Terrain Park in the Northwest. The results of Newschoolers' 2018 Parks Poll are in, and we couldn't be more elated. As last season came to a close, Newschoolers, named the top skiing website in the world, teamed up with Snow Park Technologies to create a comprehensive ranking of the best terrain parks across North America. Using a combination (50/50) of analytical analysis
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Happy Earth Day!
Happy Earth Day! Help us make every day Earth Day Happy Earth Day! While April 22 provides an annual opportunity to stop, reflect and consider how our actions impact the planet, we try to do our part to make every day Earth Day at the Peak of Vancouver.Have you visited the Eye of the Wind? It's BC’s first viable wind energy solution with the capacity to offset up to 25 percent of Grouse
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Grouse Mountain Opening for the 2015/16 Winter Season!
able to fire up snowmaking to lay down more of that white gold. It’s time to dust off your skis and boards and get up here for the first turns of the season! If snowshoes are more your thing, we’ve got great news for you too! The Snowshoe Grind will also be opening on Friday at 9:00am for you to hit the trail. Until further notice, Lift Tickets will be available at Alpine Experience Ticket prices
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Owls of Grouse Mountain
‘owl’ and Latin word alba for ‘white’Where do they live? Open areas such as grassy fields, old agricultural fields, meadows and wetland edges, farms, and rural towns. During the day, Barn owls often roost in evergreen trees and barns. What do they eat? Small mammals. A nesting pair of Barn owls with six owlets can eat up to 1,000 mice in a single three month nesting period! When do they hunt? Barn
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7 family-friendly activities to do at Grouse Mountain this weekend
Interpretive Centre, catch Disneynature's Wings of Life in the Theatre in the Sky, book a Honeybee Hive Tour, say hello to Buzzby our bee mascot...and more!2)Have a bear-y good time visiting grizzlies Grinder and Coola. Residents of a five-acre habitat on our mountaintop since 2001, our furry friends provide a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see these amazing creatures up close and personal. Our friendly
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Bears enter 15th Hibernation Period on Grouse Mt
are currently receiving lots of fresh snow on the ground and this combined with the behaviors noted above told us it was time to close the door to the den and let them sleep the winter away.Both bears are really stocked up on the body fat for the winter! Grinder recently weighed in at over 900 pounds! We estimate Coola to be over 1000 lbs. This is the earliest date ever for the bears entering
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Reservations Open for Dine Out at The Observatory
of the season from local producers, the menu is sure to delight your taste buds.For more details on the full menu and to reserve your table online, visit The Observatory website.Don't wait, space is sure to fill up.
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Santa's Reindeer Spotted on Grouse Mountain
the girls we've had up here before. They have large antlers that they re-grow every year and thick coats that keep them warm on those cold North Pole evenings (Grouse Mountain is kind of like a tropical vacation for them!).They enjoy eating some of our leftover shrubs, but we also supply them with lots of alfalfa hay and some special reindeer pellets that Santa has provided to us (we think they are
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