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Remember: Use Your Trail Sense Grouse Grind season kicks off at 6:15am on May 17, 2014 With the beginning of the Grouse Grind season, we’d like to take this opportunity to remind our Grind community about the importance of using your trail sense when navigating the Grouse Mountain trail network. For a list of Grouse Grind facts, frequently asked questions and helpful hints, please click here or

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Pollinators Thrive in the Pollinator's Garden Did you know that there are 56 species of native bees in the Greater Vancouver Area?  250 in BC?  Thousands across Canada?  Wild Pollinators such as wild bees, flies, butterflies, wasps, hornets, moths, hummingbirds and others play a very important role in pollination all around us.  We often hear of the importance of Honey Bee's for pollination

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Our New Honeybees Have Arrived on Grouse Mountain! Today we had about 120,000 new guests on Grouse Mountain - 16 new hives of Honey Bees!Their arrival marks the expansion of our honey bee program and the arrival of our Small Wonder's summer starting this weekend.  The bee's will live here year round but of course will be most active in the summertime when they will pollinate our flowers and

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Grinder and Coola Begin to Put on The Pounds As the weather starts to get colder and the days grow shorter, our two resident Grizzly Bears grow a bit wider!  The bears have begun to enter a state referred to as hyperphagia - which is essentially a fancy term for pigging out.  When they enter this state they are focused primarily on increasing their calorie intake to bulk up for hibernation.  We

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inspiring 4100ft climb head on, making their way through the Capilano Pacific trail, up Nancy Greene Way to the Grouse Grind ending with a gruelling last leg to the Peak of Grouse Mountain and back down to the chalet- what an amazing feat! As racers crossed the finish line, they were greeted with medals and a carnival-style party on the Alpine Plaza that also included yoga and physiotherapy treatments

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Summer Favourites Return May Long Weekend Launch of Summer Season at the Peak of Vancouver Summer season has returned to Grouse Mountain! Beginning Saturday you can enjoy summer favourites like our World Famous Lumberjack Show, the awe-inspiring Birds in Motion Demonstration, Owl Interpretive Talks, Bear Ranger Talks, Eco-walks, Heli-Tours and much more. Returning this summer is our newest

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Social Nights Return Looking for something fun to do on your Wednesday night? Join us at Altitudes Bistro as our ever-popular Winter Social Nights return to Grouse Mountain! Starting at 6:00pm every Wednesday through to the end of March, we'll have prizes and great tunes along with food and drink specials provided by Granville Island Brewing. So, hit the trails at our Training Nights on

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Bring on winter! The snow has arrived at Grouse Mountain Wow, where did autumn go?! All of a sudden, winter is just a few short weeks away and those dreams of perfect, powdered bluebird days at Grouse Mountain are about to become a reality. <cue happy sigh>Seasonal maintenance: nearly complete!Up here at the Peak of Vancouver, our mountain operations, maintenance and facilities folks

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Almost $60,000 raised in second-annual Whistler Water One Climb! Singer Victoria Duffield and nearly 900 participants flood the Grind to support Free The Children (North Vancouver) The Grouse Grind was ‘flooded’ this morning as close to 900 people clad in blue and sporting painted faces and hair hiked the iconic trail during Whistler Water One Climb in an action-packed day of fundraising and

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Bears Emerge - 2015 At the end of last week we made a decision to open the bear's hibernation den door!  It has been warm and sunny and the bears have been stirring a little bit more each day.The groggy bears emerged and checked out their outdoor hibernation yard, munched on a little bit of green grass, and then returned to sleep back inside the den.Grinder and Coola will slowly wake up more now

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