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Grouse Mountain Launches 2016/17 Season Y2Play Snow Pass Offer
added benefits, Y2Play delivers outstanding value to local skiers and riders looking forward to another exciting winter on the slopes.” As local skiers and riders can attest, this season has been excellent. Next season is shaping up to be even more epic with early predictions indicating a La Nina year. During the last La Nina in the 2011/12 winter season, Grouse Mountain received 911 cm (over 30 ft
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Almost $60,000 raised in second-annual Whistler Water One Climb!
community of Kipsongol. Notably, the top individual fundraisers, two young students named Maya and Solaya, raised $2,408 for the cause, bringing the cumulative total of One Climb donations to $177,000 over the past two years. To put it in perspective, $25 provides a lifetime of clean water to one person, which means more than 7,000 people have been helped by Whistler Water One Climb to date.Kicking off
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Road to Seek the Peak: Week 6
massive climbing requires fuel. Get calories in your body within 15 minutes of finishing, even if just juice, as your body gets maximal absorption while it is still storing glycogen in the muscle tissue. Chug: start to replenish those fluids as soon as you can tolerate them. Fluid replacement requirements vary by individual and race day conditions, but you are likely to have lost substantial fluid, so
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Common Mammals of Grouse Mountain
120,000 Black Bears. It may surprise you to know that Black Bears are omnivorous and feed mostly on vegetation. They can be seen foraging for berries, grasses, nuts and other plant matter which comprises 80% of their diet. That being said, if a good chance for a meat meal such as fish or venison comes along they won't turn it down! Black bears have an amazing sense of smell and can find food from
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12th-annual Seek the Peak raises thousands for BC Cancer Foundation
12th-annual Seek the Peak raises thousands for BC Cancer Foundation Close to 600 racers make 16-kilometre uphill climb to Peak of Vancouver (North Vancouver) Taking the 4,100-foot elevation gain in stride, close to 600 participants made the 16-kilometre climb from West Vancouver’s Ambleside Park to the Peak of Vancouver this morning during the renowned Seek the Peak event.Now in its 12th year
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Geoff Kabush takes the day at the 25th Clearly.ca Grouse Grind Mountain Run®
Grind For Kids program in support of BC Children’s Hospital. First place in the men’s category was claimed by Geoff Kabush, who crossed the finish line with a time of 27 minutes and 18 seconds. Following close behind, with a second place finish was Michael Simpson of North Vancouver with a time of 27:41. Coming in with a third place finish was Nick Elson with a time of 28:16. In the women’s category
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Grouse Mountain at SIA 2015
Grouse Mountain at SIA 2015 The Latest And Greatest From SIA 2015 Retail manager, Mark O'Quinn, is on site at SIA 2015 in Denver, CO. The SnowSports Industries America Snow Show is one of the largest and most renowned ski and snowboard shows in the world. Nowhere else can you survey the latest gear and get face time with some of the industry's biggest players. With that being said, Mark will keep
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Recap: Whistler Water One Climb 2015 another success!
day was definitely something to celebrate.As in past years, One Climbers went to great lengths to reach out to their friends, family and community to collect contributions for the cause. Top individual fundraiser Phoebe Chen ($1,594), top school fundraiser Ross Road Elementary ($1,200) and top team fundraiser KPMG ($6,950) have helped bring the cumulative total of One Climb donations to almost
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Ready Or Not...
individual goals and abilities of the group with appropriate scaling.At the end there was a draw for t-shirts facilitated by representatives from Columbia Sportswear and a brief outline of the next training session was provided. Overall a great intro to the training and meeting our coaches for the next 10 weeks. In future blogs we will put more emphasis on the actual training that we are doing and some of
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Multi-Grouse Grind Challenge raises thousands for Grind For Kids!
Multi-Grouse Grind Challenge raises thousands for Grind For Kids! Elite athletes hit the Grind on the longest day of the year to support BC Children’s Hospital (North Vancouver) After an amazing 16-hour day on the Grouse Grind®, Grouse Mountain is pleased to announce that Sunday’s second-annual Multi-Grouse Grind Challenge has helped raise almost $9,000 as part of the mountain’s annual support