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active until the return of winter. The 2011/2012 winter season saw Grouse Mountain breaking our average snowfall record, for the past ten years, with a stunning 1,163 centimetres of white gold. With an early start on November 18 to massive deliveries of snow in January and February this truly was an exceptional season for everyone who hit the slopes. From our festive Peak of Christmas celebration and

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Excavations to the Bear Habitat Underway! This week we began excavations to the Bear's hibernation habitat - the first area they access after they emerge from their winter's sleep.  The first stage is to get in there with the heavy machinery and remove the majority of the snow.  Our excavators and grooming machines have been working this week to remove the 15 feet of snow currently present in

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30 pounds of food each per day.  This will increase shortly to around 50 pounds a day.  The bears will be expected to put on an additional 20-30% of their body weight to prepare for winter.  This is anywhere from 150 to 300 pounds of extra bulk!Once we start to get much colder weather and the first snowfalls happen, we will taper off their food and then cut it off completely and this will trigger

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Bears Still Snowed In! As if to say, Happy April Fools Day, more snow fell over the bear den and bear habitat.  We have begun to see a few signs of spring, but the snow has shown no sign of stopping.  Grinder and Coola's 'Bear Hotel' is still surrounded by over 15 feet of snow!  This makes it fairly dark inside, and when the boys have made their first exploratory journeys to the front part of

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through Sunday, October 6. For detailed festival information, tickets, schedule and updates, visit: http://www.artistsforconservation.org/festival. About Artists for ConservationArtists for Conservation (AFC) is the world’s leading group of artists supporting the environment. Founded in 1997, the non-profit organization comprises a membership of 500 of the world’s most gifted nature artists from 27

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Grouse Mountain Welcomes Artists For Conservation World renowned wildlife and nature artists, including Robert Bateman, to attend first annual Artists for Conservation Festival from November 5 to 13, 2011 For the first time, Grouse Mountain is teaming up with Artists for Conservation to bring some of the world's best nature and wildlife art to the Peak of Vancouver. From November 5 to 13, nature

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Bears Enjoy First Food of the Year On Wednesday, April 18th, Grinder and Coola, our two resident Grizzly Bears, enjoyed their first feed of 2012. Over the last two weeks Grinder and Coola have become increasingly active and showed all of the signs of being out of hibernation.  Once we are sure of this and are close to having their outdoor habitat ready we begin to help the bears get their

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Artists For Conservation Festival Grouse Mountain welcomes world-renowned nature and wildlife artists to the Peak of Vancouver from November 5 to13, 2011 For the first time, Grouse Mountain is teaming up with Artists for Conservation to bring some of the world's best nature and wildlife art to the Peak of Vancouver. From November 5 to 13, nature and wildlife artists, including world renowned

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Grouse Mountain Recruiting Bloggers Grouse Mountain recruiting talented new bloggers for winter opportunity to showcase aptitude for snow sports media. November 12, 2010, Grouse Mountain, North Vancouver, B.C. – Grouse Mountain is recruiting a new team of bloggers for the 2010/2011 winter season to contribute to the grousepark.com blog, which is viewed by tens of thousands of unique users every

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