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Snowfall Presents New Challenges Access to The Eye of the Wind project site a challenge under 150 cm of new snow With 150cm of snow at Grouse Mountain the project site of The Eye of the Wind has evolved into something very different. The white steel tower, viewPOD and blades are nearly camouflaged in their snowy surroundings. Access to the site is a large challenge as our team relies on

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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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Mountains. The race has both a 5km and 10km option that will cover all of Grouse Mountain’s snowshoe terrain including summiting Dam Mountain and trekking out to Thunderbird Ridge. All athletic abilities and ages are welcome and encouraged to participate.“We are thrilled to include Grouse Mountain in our Yeti Snowshoe series” says Dave Howells, Yeti series race director. “Grouse Mountain adds some very

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inspirational.Dave shared with us how important it is not to over train and to keep the intensity relatively moderate most of the time and have 10% of the training for high intensity. To focus on the technique rather than training hard. Most of all to enjoy the training and have fun! It was another great training night and looking forward to our next group run.Stay tuned for next Wednesday, our eighth training

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Grouse Mountain explains. “All of our summer attractions are getting ready and will be on schedule to fully open May 20, while at the same time we are keeping the skiers and boarders ecstatic. We have the snow this year so we are thrilled we can continue to let everyone enjoy it”. Grouse Mountain will be temporarily shutting down alpine snow sports only from May 17 to May 27 for some previously

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average with the last few years (2008/2009 - 150 days, 2009/2010 - 145 days and 2010/2011 - 161 days). This is the second longest hibernation period to date. A big thanks to our snow-making (or snow-removal in this case!) team who spent the last two weeks digging out and preparing the grizzly bear’s hibernation habitat.Work continues on their 5 acre summer habitat and we hope to have it ready by

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fundraising in support of the BC Children’s Hospital Foundation. Crossing the finish line with a time of 26 minutes and 39 seconds was US Men’s National Mountain Running Team racer Joseph Gray who claimed first place honours for the second consecutive year. In second place was former Grouse Grind record-holder Michael Simpson of Vancouver who clocked in at 28:48 and rounding out the top three was Squamish

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Make a Resolution to Be Safe in the Snow Register today for our Avalanche Skills Training Course Are you interested in understanding how to evaluate avalanche conditions, analyzing forecasts and planning? Let our experienced team help you get some of the basics with our 2-Day Avalanche Skills Training Level 1 Course. The course provides an entry-level decision-making framework that is based on

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Winter in full swing at Grouse Mountain Resort enables skiers and riders to beat the world rush with early launch of famed Y2Play Pass sales January 28, 2010, Grouse Mountain, North Vancouver, B.C. – New snowfall and sub-zero temperatures provide skiers and boarders renewed assurance of favourable conditions for alpine snow sports in the city. Warmer temperatures have lapsed and Mother Nature has

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flakes start flying our Grouse Mountain team will make sure you are the first to know when we have 10cm of fresh powder. 

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