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Orphaned Grizzlies Grinder and Coola Wake Up First Romp of 2013 Grizzly bears Grinder and Coola don’t seem to mind one little bit that it’s still a winter wonderland high atop Grouse Mountain. After a five-month long hibernation, the white stuff seems to be the perfect playground for poking around, playing and logging the first romp of 2013. “The bears appear to be in outstanding condition after

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Ready or Not... Husband and Wife team, Michelle and Gareth begin chronicling their journey to Seek the Peak. Hey folks, Gareth and Michelle here! We will be blogging about our training for this year's "Seek the Peak" at Grouse Mountain and give a recap of the event once completed. Before we get on to the first post, how about we give you a bit of info on who we are and why we are doing this crazy

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Snowfall Accumulation Keeps Adding Up 11 cm in the last 12 hours This winter season just keeps getting better, and skiers and riders are rejoicing. As of 2:00pm on February 13th, Grouse Mountain has received 11 cm of fresh snow, for a total of 525 cm so far this season.Over the next few weeks there are a mix of weather systems expected, bouncing the freezing level around. Additional periods of

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Gingerbread Village Challenge 2014 Calling all bakers and pastry chefs! Grouse Mountain and SOS Children’s Village BC are partnering during Peak of Christmas to create a special SOS Children’s Gingerbread Village. We are looking for professional and aspiring bakers and pastry chefs to help build unique gingerbread houses that will be on display in the Grouse Mountain Chalet from November 27

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Last Year's Champs Words of Gingerbread wisdom from Melanie Roy, one of last year's SOS Children's Gingerbread Village winning team members. The look and feel of your Gingerbread House was so polished, how many people on your team had baked and built gingerbread houses to this scale before?  My sister Silvie and I did all the baking and assembly. We’ve been baking together since we were little

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do this in three stages: first a small area around their hibernation habitat where they can come out to play in the snow while we work on the other areas, second the 2.5 acre Upper Pond habitat and finally the 2.5 acre Lower Pond habitat.Grinder and Coola were excited to enter their new digs and promptly explored the large pond, fishing out some frog eggs for a mid-afternoon snack.  They then

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Bears Emerge from Hibernation Today, April 16th, 2014, Grinder and Coola emerged from their bear den and into their hibernation habitat for the first time this year.  Their 13th hibernation period has come to an end.The boys have been up and active for a few days now as we put the finishing touches on their outdoor hibernation area.  Today, with a few eager onlookers, we opened the door to the

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Race Day Seek the Peak After ten weeks of training of training with Kintec, armed with knowledge from City Sport Physio and nutrition tips and supplements from Vega, we hit the ground running for Grouse Mountain's 10th annual "Seek the Peak" presented by Columbia.Weather could not be better as the sun was shining on the 800+ racers who bravely made their way out to Ambleside park which would

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Yoga at the Peak of Vancouver Saturday YYoga Last Saturday was a fantastic sunny day for the first day of YYoga on Grouse Mountain. It was the perfect weather and by 9:30am there were plenty of keen yogis looking for mats and finding a place to participate in this amazing class set in one of Vancouver's most spectacular settings.Kat Wong led the class and gave each of us a candy to put in our

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Y2Play is 60% Sold! Don’t miss out on our best deal of the year Grouse Mountain's annual Y2Play Snow Pass is back and it’s selling like hotcakes! We’re now at 60% sold and they're going fast. With child passes priced at $64 and adult passes priced at $359 you save up to 80% off regular rates. Not to mention the fantastic benefits and discounts included for all age and family categories such as

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