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First Snow Winter 16/17 It's Time to Wax Those Boards We couldn't be more excited. What a way to start the day with a blanketing of fresh snow on the Mountain. Grouse Mountain's Operations team has been waiting for this week - with fresh snow from Mother Nature and lower temperatures so that we can fire-up our extensive snowmaking fleet. Our Mountain Operations team will be maximizing these

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Grouse Mountain Reports Best Month Ever Strong start to the 90th winter season at the Peak of Vancouver (North Vancouver) On the heels of outstanding early season conditions, Grouse Mountain is pleased to announce that December was the Resort’s best month on record. Results show business was up more than 20% compared with the previous December. “We’re thrilled to report such a positive start to

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14th Annual Seek the Peak Raises Thousands for BC Cancer Foundation Almost 650 participants make the 16-kilometre climb to the Peak of Vancouve (North Vancouver) A beautiful summer day greeted participants at Grouse Mountain’s annual Seek the Peak, with its awe-inspiring 1,250-metre climb from West Vancouver’s Ambleside Park to the Peak of Vancouver. Now in its 14th year, the event saw

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Resort attempts to break the Guinness World Record for the largest human maple leaf. “We are excited to embrace Canadiana as we invite guests to celebrate Canada’s 150th Birthday with us at the Peak of Vancouver” said Julia Grant, Grouse Mountain’s Communications Manager. “With special activities like axe-throwing, a Canada 150 edition of our World Famous Lumberjack Show and an attempt to break the

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and abilities can have some fun. We checked in with Marcus, our Terrain Park Manager about what you can expect from Canada's first natural-feature based terrain park, located on Buckhorn. "We've currently got our three permanent wood features in place, which include a wall ride, a log pole jam and a flat log. We also have some movable round log features, a rainbow log and picnic tables scattered

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Mother Nature’s Stairmaster, the 45 participants had hiked a collective total of 434 Grouse Grinds in a one-day period. “We are thrilled to have so many people participate in this year’s Suunto Multi-Grouse Grind® Challenge and show their support for BC Children's Hospital,” said Julia Grant, Grouse Mountain’s Communications Manager. “All the athletes who participated should be incredibly proud of

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cavity nesters - which means they look for old trees or stumps to excavate a hole into where they can lay eggs and raise their young.  They also prefer locations where they can have a view of their surroundings to watch for predators.  Our carved statues make a perfect location as they were constructed out of naturally fallen trees which already had a lot of holes and/or hollow interiors.  They also

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First Hummingbird Monitoring Session of 2016 Yesterday we held our first hummingbird monitoring session of 2016 and it was an incredible day for early May!  The Grouse Mountain Hummingbird Monitoring Project was started in 2005 and was established as part of the Hummingbird Monitoring Network of western North America.  The goal of the project (and our local project) is to monitor the long term

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Santa's Reindeer Fly in from the North Pole in time for Peak of Christmas Dancer and Vixen to be his Grouse Mountain representatives this year! Early on Wednesday morning this week we heard a clatter outside the Chalet as two of Santa's Reindeer, Dancer and Vixen, suddenly landed on the Grouse Mountain helipad!  Our Wildlife Rangers were the perfect hosts, of course, and guided them to their

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DANCER AND VIXEN ARRIVE AT GROUSE MOUNTAIN what to our wondering eyes should appear but two of Santa's Reindeer! Early this past Saturday morning we discovered that Dancer and Vixen had arrived on the mountaintop for the holiday season.Dancer and Vixen are joining us as official ambassadors of Santa's Reindeer program and will be on hand throughout our Peak of Christmas event to greet visitors

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