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learning more about the mountain’s tiniest residents including honeybees, hummingbirds, salamanders, butterflies, dragonflies, bats, barn swallows and pikas.Grouse Mountain visitors can take a walk through The Hive Bee Interpretive Centre to brush up on bee terminology and learn how honey is made, stroll through the beautiful Pollinator’s Garden, designed to attract bees, hummingbirds and other

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little ones (and their parents!) occupied and entertained is certainly top of mind. Here at Grouse Mountain, we like to make things as easy as possible, so below are a few mountaintop summer activities that are perfect for kids and kids at heart:1)  Check out our Summer of Small Wonders and learn all about honeybees, hummingbirds and other important pollinators.  Take a walk through The Hive Bee

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the girls we've had up here before.  They have large antlers that they re-grow every year and thick coats that keep them warm on those cold North Pole evenings (Grouse Mountain is kind of like a tropical vacation for them!).They enjoy eating some of our leftover shrubs, but we also supply them with lots of alfalfa hay and some special reindeer pellets that Santa has provided to us (we think they are

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reached a turning point and decided to approach her life differently.   "If I were an author and my life was a book, how would I want this story to end? I want to snowboard!" -Amy Purdy Since then she has accomplished so much. Including designing prosthetics to make snowboarding for double amputees possible, forming the American Paralympic snowboarding team, winning bronze in Sochi and winning as a

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accumulated at Grouse Mountain. With sunny, cool temperatures in the forecast for the coming days, the North Shore’s largest snowmaking fleet is poised and ready to make additional snow. In addition, Grouse Mountain’s 8,000-square foot ice skating pond – the only mountaintop outdoor skate pond in the lower mainland – is slated to open in the near future.“As we look ahead to our 88th winter season at the

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away!) it’s time to ensure we avoid injuries as much as possible and arrive healthy and prepared for race day. Below are three ways you can help ensure you reach the start line with a smile. 1. Stretch and recover. Both key elements of any training routine. After every workout, ensure you give yourself enough time to stretch. As busy as our lives are, it is important to spend at least ten minutes

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students’ everyday lives; that’s really the most rewarding part.” In addition to a fun ski race, the VASS Cup also includes a sledge hockey demonstration, silent auction and an après celebration with awards and prizes. Donations to the silent auction are still being accepted. Funds raised through the VASS Cup make it possible to provide individuals with a disability access to the mountains, and to

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Grouse Woods Now Open! Canada's First Natural Feature Terrain Park We're excited to announce the opening of Grouse Woods™ - our newest terrain park and the first of it's kind in Canada.Using recycled wood and snow, our Parks crew has created a fun new terrain park experience that we can’t wait to hit up. Current features available include a Wood Wall Ride, Pole Jam Log, Down Wood Log and a Flat

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lounging in their pools.Grinder and Coola can often be found just lazing around the pond, swimming, floating, stretching or even sleeping!  When they want some activity to stretch their muscles they'll seek each other out for a good old fashioned water fight.  We've seen them splashing water at each other, dunking each other under the surface and even pushing each other off of the logs and rocks.  It's

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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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