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...Traveller Reviews from Trip Advisor"Well worth the money if you are after a safe but intense thrill in an amazing environment. […] We had a chilly cloudy day in mid-May, but were the only people booked in so we had four instructors with the two of us and they were all very friendly and helpful." — James M., New Zealand"This was a terrific adventure, and you did not have to be athletic, just enthusiastic

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Time to Lace Up Those Skates The Festiva Season is Almost Here! November has arrived and Vancouver's only mountaintop ice skating rink is now open! The ice skating rink will operate daily from 9am to 10pm. Come lace up your skates and glide around our 8,000 square foot pond to your heart’s content. This also means Christmas is around the corner and Grouse Mountain’s holiday wonderland will soon

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Visit The Observatory's Website We are proud to announce the launch of a brand-new website for our restaurant The Observatory. Visit observatoryrestaurant.ca for the latest news from our five-star dining venue.

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susceptible to certain injuries.Then we broke into groups, with a run/ walk group that went out along the trail and back along the seawall and then into groups of runners from slower to super fast! Odessa has spent the past few years practicing Yoga and is just returning to running. After a two year break from running she was going faster than I was! Odessa was a great running companion and we had a nice

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Keep the Winter Fun Going Zone and Adventure Day Camps Available this Week School is back in session, but if you’re a North Vancouver parent you just might be looking for a childcare options on Friday, January 9th – the first Pro-D Day of 2015. Here at the Peak of Vancouver, we’ve got outdoor options to suit every little winter enthusiast!For children as young as five, our Zone Camps are the

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keep our guests wide-awake all night long. From our new outdoor movie screenings to sunrise mountaintop zipline treks this is the one weekend of the year that no one should miss here at Grouse Mountain”. A host of local minor hockey teams will take to the skate pond at the Peak of Vancouver representing the Olympic teams. Children aged 7 and 8, will compete throughout the weekend in honour of the

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Bears Getting More Active As the days begin to grow longer, Grinder and Coola are beginning to stir more often inside their bear hotel.  Recently we've even seen them leaving their bear bed den and exploring the larger section of the bear hotel.  You can check out Grinder in the video below sniffing and pawing at the fresh snow fall in the front of the bear hotel.  Both bears were also observed

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This Day in History - July 13, 1954 In 1951, Grouse Mountain put in a chairlift to whisk skiers from the base of the mountain to the Grouse chalet. The chalet was owned by the Cromie family, which owned The Vancouver Sun, and the paper often carried ads promoting the chalet, the chairlift, and the free skiing lessons The Sun offered to its readers. In the summer, Grouse would lure the masses up

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independence on the snow. If you pop over to The Cut, you just might see VASS members doing a wide range of activities including sit-ski, stand-up skiing and advanced adaptive ski racing. Every year, we host VASS’ annual fundraiser, the VASS Cup Challenge, which gives participants a chance to compete in a fun, professionally timed ski race with a student from the VASS program.VASS are always in need of

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. In his first appearance in the event, 21- year-old Sebastian Salas from Vancouver beat an elite field that included athletes from as far as Quebec and Alberta, in a time of 28:02. The fastest woman on the course was reigning female record holder Leanne Johnston, clocking 31:29 to claim her third title in as many years.Over 600 ambitious hikers took on the challenge with race participants, ranging

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