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Vancouver, BC (last year’s event was in New York). This year’s Festival has a unique education program that provides students in grades 3-12 the opportunity to interact with world renowned artists one-to-one. Given that Artists for Conservation is a limited time engagement, registration for this very unique opportunity is limited.Don’t miss out on the opportunity to insight and motivate your students with

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”, says Marc Lacheppelle, Station Manger for KLM and Air France who recently took part in one of Grouse Mountain’s Corporate Adventure Training programs. Please contact sales@grousemountain.com to book your Corporate Adventure Training program today. Our typical one-day program is $180/person plus applicable taxes.

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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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Birds in Motion finishes for 2011 This past Sunday marked the last of our Birds in Motion demonstrations for the 2011 season.  It seems like just yesterday that the birds were arriving and getting trained up for our demonstrations but here they are migrating East for the winter time.All of the demonstration birds spend the winter time at the Canadian Raptor Conservancy in Ontario where they get

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packing on the pounds.This first snow will prompt them to increase their foraging and to start building their bed for the winter time.  Staff will begin to supply the bears with Pacific Silver-Fir branches (Amabilis fir) that they favor for bed making.  As the weather gets colder, we will taper off their food supply.  This lack of food and cold weather prompts the bears to finish their bed making and to

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Bears Enjoy Sun and Snow! Grinder and Coola are certainly enjoying these warm sunny days we have been seeing here at Grouse Mountain.  It can get quite hot under all that fur, but thankfully their habitat still has large mounds of snow left over from our extraordinary winter.  Grinder and Coola have dug deep snow caves and when they begin to get too hot they retreat into these cool abodes.  If

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New Year. New Goals. Resolve to get fit and have fun in 2012 For many of us, New Year’s Eve also means making some New Year’s resolutions. For those looking to put fitness first-and-foremost, we have some ideas that can help make that resolution both specific and fun!Our Snowshoe Clinics begin the weekend of January 7/8. With options for Beginners, Ladies (Only), or those looking for Race

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The Eye of the Wind Elevator The elevator inside the Eye of the Wind now travels from the bottom to the top We’ve been asked by a number of skiers on the mountain why The Eye of the Wind isn’t spinning regularly. Rest assured it isn’t due to lack of wind! The blades are kept in a position that prevents them from capturing the movement of the wind while we wait to complete the electrical work

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Bears Build Bed Close to hibernation now! On Thursday morning, November 18th, Grinder and Coola suddenly decided it was time to build their hibernation bed! We had provided them with lots of nice soft fir branches a couple weeks before hand but they had gone largely ignored until today. The trigger for their bed building was probably our dropping temperatures and our first serious dump of snow

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you meet on August 31, September 7, 14 and 21 at 5:30pm at the base of the Grouse Grind for these all important training sessions. Designed to help you prepare and have fun, the first two sessions will take runners through Grouse Woods and then the final two sessions will be on the Grouse Grind. Grab your running shoes and take in the last few long days of summer as you train and make the BMO Grouse

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