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Earth Day 2017 Happy Earth Day! Today we celebrate our beautiful planet Earth.It's a great day to get out and acknowledge the beauty of nature as well as think about what actions we can take in our everyday lives to conserve that beauty.At Grouse Mountain, we are working towards reducing our own environmental footprint. While it's an ongoing journey, here are some of the steps we're taking to

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Grinder and Coola Enter 16th Hibernation Period on Grouse Mountain With the days getting quite short and the snow building up, Grinder and Coola, our two resident Grizzly Bears at the Grouse Mountain Refuge for Endangered Wildlife have finally entered their long winter nap.This will be the 16th hibernation period on Grouse Mountain for Grinder and Coola who arrived in 2001 as young orphaned cubs

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Simmerling, Dave Duncan and Sam Mulligan.All three of these athletes have developed their skills here on our slopes and are incredibly accomplished, yet they continue to strive for greater heights. We're also supporting BC Alpine up-and-comers Kristina Natalenko and Antonia Wearmouth.Having the whole Grouse Mountain community behind these athletes is powerful. You too have the opportunity to contribute to

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Holiday Shuttle  Access overflow parking with the Holiday Shuttle Over the 2016 Holiday period, there are times when parking at Grouse Mountain may become tight. To ease access to parking, Grouse Mountain is running a Holiday Shuttle from Cleveland Dam Parking lot on busy days.Each day at 11am we will confirm whether the Shuttle will run on the next day. This information will be included in our

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of training.Seek the Peak 2017 – It’s May and the race is 5 weeks away! As I look up from my house to the Peak of Grouse Mountain, I can’t help but be in awe of how majestic those mountains look, even more so with all the snow they still have on them! I’ve hiked up the BCMC trail a few times in the last couple of weeks to get a sense of the amount of snow left, and let’s just say that it’s no

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further on a Guided-Eco Walk. New this summer take some time to learn about the Mountain's flora and fauna at the Into the Wild Interpretive Zone or capture its beauty by honing your photography skills at a guided photography session. Alpine Summer Hiking Clinics are a great way to learn how to safely enjoy backcountry hiking. Finish your day’s adventures at our new evening bonfire complete with live

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14th Annual Seek the Peak Hits the Trail June 25th Racers make the climb in support of the BC Cancer Foundation (North Vancouver) Grouse Mountain is excited to announce that the 14th annual Seek the Peak hits the trail on Sunday, June 25th. With every upward step, valuable funds will be raised for the BC Cancer Foundation’s lifesaving work in the fight against breast cancer. The awe-inspiring

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Swallows Choose to Nest 'On Camera' One of our popular programs up here at Grouse Mountain is our wildlife web-cameras.  Our Hibernation Bear Camera was one of the first wildlife cams available in the world back in the early 2000's and now our summer and winter bear cameras are a huge hit with fans of Grinder and Coola world-wide.In the last couple years we've expanded to include a few other

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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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Grouse Mountain Launches Annual Y2Play Offer Your Peak Pass for the 2017/18 Winter Season (North Vancouver) In the midst of a fantastic season celebrating 90 years of winter on its slopes, Grouse Mountain is thrilled to announce that the 2017/18 Y2Play Pass is available for purchase while quantities last. Now in its 18th year, Y2Play is widely recognized as the best value snow pass in North

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