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Grouse Mountain Launches 2016/17 Season Y2Play Snow Pass Offer Unparalleled savings available for a limited time only! (North Vancouver) With a fantastic winter season well underway, Grouse Mountain is thrilled to announce that the 2016/17 Y2Play Snow Pass is now on sale while quantities last. This year marks the 17th anniversary of Y2Play, which is widely acknowledged as the best value for a

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Ski Club racer, Sam Mulligan, was nominated to the World Cup Men Senior team. We’re elated for Sam and hope you’ll join us in wishing him all the best with training and the season ahead.  Stirling Hart, who has performed in the Grouse Mountain World Famous Lumberjack Show for the past 13 years, won the Stihl Timbersports Champions Trophy in Marseille, France May 26/27, 2018. Showcasing both his

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lbs over his summer weight of 800lbs!  Grinder weighs in at 928lbs.  We recently reduced their habitat down to their hibernation area only.  This assists us in packing away their larger summer fence for the winter so it doesn't get destroyed by the snow and also shows the bears that it is time to build their bed in the den!We have supplied the bears with cut Amabilis Fir (Pacific Silver-Fir

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unique event has raised over $400,000 in support of cancer research in British Columbia. By fundraising in partnership with your entry in Seek the Peak, you show your support for those experiencing life with cancer by providing much needed funds to leading-edge research happening at the BC Cancer Agency. This year our goal is to raise $40,000 and to do that, we need your help. Here are some tips from

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season,  but because of a nice stretch of sunny weather we ended up catching, measuring, banding and releasing 15 hummingbirds of two different species.  We banded 9 Rufous Hummingbirds and had three returning birds banded in previous years (2014, and 2015 in this case!).  We were also thrilled to see three gorgeous adult Male Anna's Hummingbirds coming up from the coast to visit our feeders here on

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participants take on the 16-kilometre course alone or as part of a relay team, with every step upwards raising valuable funds for the BC Cancer Foundation’s lifesaving work in the fight against breast cancer. This year’s Seek the Peak title goes to Braden Lively with a time of 1:31:06 followed by Brooke Spence as the first female finisher with a time of 1:43:58. Taking top honours in the relay category is

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can already run 16 km - check! I can climb the Grind – it’s exhausting but manageable. I can climb up to the Peak and back down, no problem. But when I started thinking about combining all those parts together… it just seemed crazy! So I decided to join the STP training clinic and “think” about doing the actual race. After many weeks of training (up and down many hills) I finally committed to the

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Grouse Mountain Announces Partnership with Suunto Sports Technology Company to showcase innovative products to the Grind community With the 2016 hiking season now underway following the opening of the Grouse Grind, Grouse Mountain is pleased to announce a new partnership with Finnish sport technology company Suunto. The one year agreement will provide the Grind community with an introduction to

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Delicious Dandelions Honey Bees and Wild Bees use this Early Blooming Flower as Important Food Source Long the bane of meticulous lawn owners, Taraxacum officinale, or as we more commonly know it - the Dandelion - can be found just about everywhere around the world.  This hardy flower lies dormant in the winter but establishes quickly in the spring.  It is usually one of the first flowers you can

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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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