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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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, lateral shuffles, and lunge walking are all good examples of movements that take your lower body through a big full range of motion of all your joints, thus prepping them for the big moves of the Grind! 2.Stay warm – On race day, we often warm up, and then go stand in the starting corral and cool back down. Keep warm by jogging on the spot, doing leg swings, marching on the spot, bum to heel kicks, and

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BC Hydro work completed near Lot D Trees removed and replaced near power lines Hello, Grouse Grinders! With the beginning of the Grouse Grind season just around the corner, we want to give our hiking community a heads up about some work that BC Hydro completed during the winter season as you’ll likely notice a difference to the treeline near Lot D. This past fall, BC Hydro removed approximately

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Save 20% on Camps and Clinics Book by November 30th Also with the recent news that the federal government is doubling the Children’s Fitness Tax Credit, now is a great time to register your child in one of Grouse Mountain’s Zone, Freeride or Ski Wee Camps this winter. If you secure your spot by November 30th, you’ll receive an early bird discount of 20%! And don’t worry, grown-ups don’t have to

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Flying Season Has Started at Grouse Mountain At the Peak of Vancouver we appreciate a little elevation. This summer, why not take things even higher with a Helicopter Tour, Tandem Paraglide flight or Mountain Ziplines. All are offered seven days a week throughout summer. Helicopter tours provide an unmatched overview of Vancouver and the Coast Mountains. Take in all the beauty with the

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Seek the Peak:  Nicole's training diary Week 4 As your training increases and the days become warmer, it is important to start thinking ahead about accessories and nutrition for Seek the Peak. This past weekend I returned to Nancy Greene Way - though this time, I returned on my road bike. My training session for this weekend included a cycle from Downtown Vancouver to the base of Grouse Mountain

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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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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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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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