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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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Reigning champion sets new record in the 20th BMO Grouse Grind Mountain Run Whistler Water’s Generous Donation ensures $20K is raised for BC Children’s HospitalNorth Vancouver, September 19, 2010 – Twenty-three year-old Sebastian Salas set a new course record of 25 minutes and one second at the 20th BMO Grouse Grind Mountain Run today. Just last month he smashed the unofficial time (set outside

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Hundreds attend Mountain Run New winner cruises to top spot on first try.18th ANNUAL BMO BANK OF MONTREAL GROUSE GRIND MOUNTAIN RUN ATTRACTS HUNDREDS TO ALPINE RACE North Vancouver, September 21, 2008 – Canada’s most famous trail, the Grouse Grind, has a new champion after hundreds of participants raced to the alpine finish line of the 18th annual BMO Bank of Montreal Grouse Grind Mountain Run

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Another Successful Year at the Wildlife Refuge As 2011 draws to a close, I can reflect on what a successful year it has been at the Grouse Mountain Refuge for Endangered Wildlife.  After a long 2011/2010 hibernation (the longest on record at 5 months!), Grinder and Coola were happy to get out into their habitats in early May this year.  Last winter's unprecedented snowfall left a huge amount for

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Grouse Mountain Family Day Weekend an all-round success $5,000 raised to benefit North Shore Rescue (North Vancouver) Grouse Mountain has concluded yet another memorable, fun-filled 24 Hours of Winter and Family Day long weekend. Bluebird skies for the first two days and fresh snow on Family Day Monday couldn't have worked out better. To top it all off, Grouse Mountain is pleased to announce

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Congratulations, Grouse Grinders! Check out our video from the 2012 ClearlyContacts.a Grouse Grind Mountain Run The Grouse Grind came alive last weekend with the footsteps of over 500 hikers at the 2012 ClearlyContact.ca Grouse Grind Mountain Run. Congratulations to everyone who came out from the first-timers, to the corporate teams and elite mountain runners, it truly was a day to remember on

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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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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 secret to getting them to fly on Christmas Eve!!).Dancer and Prancer will be up here with us through our Peak of Christmas festivities so be sure to stop by and say hello!  They can be found hanging out in their special Reindeer Habitat behind Santa's Workshop near our Skating Pond.  If you would like to learn more about them we'll be holding Ranger Talks  at 2pm and 4pm each day.  And listen

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