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ClearlyContacts.ca Grouse Grind Mountain Run Is Less Than 2 Weeks Away  A New Corporate Challenge Is Issued To Local Businesses Making This Year's Event Bigger and Better Than Ever  September 11, 2012. North Vancouver, B.C. – The summer of 2012 has seen another great season on the Grouse Grind and registration for the 22nd ClearlyContacts.ca Grouse Grind Mountain Run taking place on Saturday

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Grouse Mountain celebrates the 24 Hours of Winter Stay on the slopes from sundown to sunrise (North Vancouver) With the 2014 Olympic Games slated to launch halfway across the world in Sochi, Russia, Grouse Mountain is excited to host its annual 24 Hours of Winter celebration taking place Saturday, February 8th through Sunday, February 9th followed by special Family Day festivities at the Peak

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Bears Begin Bear Bed Building Last week, as temperatures dropped and days continue to get shorter, Grinder and Coola began to build their bed for winter 2015.  We provided them with a large mound of Pacific Silver-Fir branches inside their bear 'hotel' and after ignoring them for quite a few days, the boys decided it was time to build a bed.Based on past years and experiments in offering them

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Happy New Years from the Grouse Mountain Refuge for Endangered Wildlife! Happy New Years Everyone!  I just wanted to write a post thanking everyone for their support and care for our wildlife over the past year.  2012 was a great year for the Refuge:  Grinder and Coola had another lazy summer and the wolves as well.  It was also our Summer of Owls and Tyto, our resident Barn Owl, was very

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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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. The 2015/16 winter season is shaping up to be a great one with new Black Diamond night skiing and riding on Blazes, a new Sliding Zone and significant enhancements to the North Shore's largest snowmaking fleet. With colder temperatures and more flakes in the forecast, it’s clear that winter has arrived. For the latest in snow and weather conditions, please visit grousemountain.com or call our

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create some sweet tasting honey.  Each hive could grow to contain 40,000 bees or more!The bee yard can be viewed near the top of our Expo Ski-Run - mind the electric fence that is designed to keep our local black bears out of the hives and honey! (NOTE: 2017 - the bees have moved to the base area).Here are a few more photos of the bees arriving:

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Grinder & Coola Emerge from Hibernation April 28, 2008, North Vancouver, BC - Grinder and Coola, resident grizzly bears at Grouse Mountain’s Refuge for Endangered Wildlife, came out of hibernation on Friday afternoon after their longest hibernation period to date. Extreme snow conditions and unseasonably cool temperatures have a big impact on the length of their hibernation. After digging

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First Hummingbird Banding Session of the Season! On Tuesday this week we held our first Hummingbird Banding and monitoring session of 2015.  The birds had arrived a few weeks before but we give them some time to settle in and feed up after a long migration.The purpose behind the monitoring is to help conduct a long term study on hummingbird population numbers and species distribution.  We are a

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30 pounds of food each per day.  This will increase shortly to around 50 pounds a day.  The bears will be expected to put on an additional 20-30% of their body weight to prepare for winter.  This is anywhere from 150 to 300 pounds of extra bulk!Once we start to get much colder weather and the first snowfalls happen, we will taper off their food and then cut it off completely and this will trigger

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