Grouse mountain is front and center in the Vancouver mountain scene and has something for everyone. This is good if you are trying to attract as many visitors as you can to a mountain, but not so good if you are looking to avoid crowds and get some fresh tracks. The one thing that sets Grouse apart from the other two North Shore mountains is that you do not have to drive up a mountain road to reach the base of operations. Instead, you take a high speed gondola right from the base of the mountain, making it the only mountain in Vancouver accessible by public transit. If you don't have a car and don't want to hitchhike this is your only option.
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384 metres of vertical puts Grouse in the middle as far as shreddible vertical on the North Shore, but you will find the terrain is a bit different than the other two hills. The lower front part of the mountain is a wide open swath cut into second growth forest with little to no tree skiing, but is home to what is usually the best park of the three local hills. The upper part of the mountain is steeper, more trail like and provides good tree skiing in numerous spots.
If you want a chance to escape the city and work on the hill this winter, you had better act quick. The annual hiring sprees for local resorts are starting this weekend! Here is some info
Sadly, we are coming up to the final weekend of lift operations at several resorts. Others will be open for the next couple of weeks, and a few will keep running into May. Here is a
The BC Freestyle Ski Association have set up a brand new program for kids to "Try Freestyle" skiing this month. For the first 150 participants that register online the cost to Try Freestyle with a qualified
La Nina has arrived, and she is initiating some of the most widespread early opening days we have seen in a long time. Most mountains that are open now are still looking pretty thin as
The snow is dumping all over B.C., we have seen some of the earliest and best opening days in recent memory and it's all just getting started.
Mount Baker was open on Thursday
NBC News' Today show will broadcast live from Grouse mountain every morning of the Olympic winter games.
During the course of the Games, Today will give viewers an all-access pass to everything Olympic. Today will
We met up with Graham Haywood, James Hiller, Sean Nixon and Andrew Petsnick to watch a few shred flicks and find out what they have been up to lately. Turns out the four recently made national
Grouse Skyride
Grouse Park
