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Meet Winter Maker Matt Rippon Winter is what we make it at Grouse Mountain and this winter we'd like you to see what goes into Winter Making. Quality mountain grooming requires both great equipment and great equipment operators. What’s it like being in the cabin of a Piston Bully at 3am preparing the Mountain for great skiing and riding? Meet Matt, our Lead Groomer and Winter Maker.

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Seek the Peak: Genevieve's story Learn why this Vancouverite is tackling the 16-km course 1. Why are you getting involved in Seek the Peak? Seek the Peak is a great challenge to test your strength; it's a fundraiser for a great cause, so it makes it quite easy to want to participate. Moreover, Seek the Peak features one of the hardest challenges in Vancouver in the Grouse Grind. I feel that if

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Join Us this Long Weekend for the Launch of Bear Discovery Spring has sprung at the Peak of Vancouver! While our resident Grizzly Bears Grinder and Coola are enjoying the warm sunshine, we’re getting ready to launch our Summer of Bear Discovery on Saturday, May 17th, 2014! The next time you visit Grouse Mountain, be sure to stop by the bear habitat to say hello and join us June through

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Keurig Cup Spring Series Slalom hits the slopes Sunday and Monday Olympian Mike Janyk returns to Grouse Mountain for his final race (North Vancouver) With great conditions in the forecast this weekend, Grouse Mountain and the Grouse Mountain Tyee Ski Club are pleased to play host to the Keurig Cup Spring Series Slalom this Sunday, March 30 and Monday, March 31 at the Peak of Vancouver.Led by

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The Early Bird Pass is On Sale Now Save on a Winter Snowpass With September here, at Grouse Mountain we're preparing for a fabulous winter ahead. New snowmaking is being installed on The Peak and The Cut for top-to-bottom coverage; our Mountain Operations team has been busy with brush cutting to smooth runs, allowing us to open more terrain with less snow, earlier in the winter season; and the

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Grinder and Coola Enter Their Lower Pond Habitat! Last Wednesday, Grinder and Coola, our two resident Grizzly Bears, entered their Lower Pond Habitat.  This section represents the completion of their summer habitat and gives them an area a little over 5 acres in size to explore and play in.  With some new territory opening up, they immediately went into exploration mode and checked out what was

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An open letter to Mother Nature Dear Mother Nature, Here at Grouse Mountain we have the utmost respect for you. We really do. You’ve provided us with some pretty stellar summertime weather in recent years and your winters have become the stuff of legend here at the Peak of Vancouver. We’re just reaching out to see what’s going on because…well, you haven’t exactly lived up to the standards we

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Bears Begin Bear Bed Building Last week, as temperatures dropped and days continue to get shorter, Grinder and Coola began to build their bed for winter 2015.  We provided them with a large mound of Pacific Silver-Fir branches inside their bear 'hotel' and after ignoring them for quite a few days, the boys decided it was time to build a bed.Based on past years and experiments in offering them

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Seek the Peak:  Nicole's training diary Week 7 Week 7: Arriving to the Start Line Injury-Free As I was climbing the Grouse Grind this weekend, I felt a slight pain in my right knee and thought of the worst. Was I feeling an injury surfacing? Thankfully, after a few more minutes of climbing, the pain disappeared and I returned to normal. With the countdown beginning for Seek the Peak (three weeks

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Grouse Mountain Bees Migrate to Langley for the Winter Last week we moved our 15 bee hives from the top of the mountain out to a lovely farm site in Langley.  Our bees will spend the winter months here where it is warmer and where food will be available earlier in the spring.Once conditions on Grouse become favorable (and all of our massive amounts of snow from this winter melt!) the bees will

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