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| Grouse Mountain |
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Grouse Mountain has been one of Vancouver's top winter destinations since 1926. Now the city's most visited four-season attraction. Your adventure begins as you step into the Super Skyride, a 100-passenger tram that glides you up the steep mountainside. In eight minutes you're 3,700 feet (1100 m) above sea level and near the top of Grouse Mountain. |
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| Location |
| Located on Vancouver's North Shore, only fifteen minutes from downtown Vancouver and 4,100 feet (1200 m) into the sky, Grouse Mountain is a year-round mountaintop playground, that offers hiking and horseback riding, helicopter tours, mountain biking and paragliding, picnics and logging shows, sleigh rides and skiing...and magical views of the city and its surroundings. |
| The Grouse Grind |
| The Grouse Grind, billed as the world's biggest stair-climb, is the outdoor venue these days to work out at and to meet new friends. During summer months, hundreds of trim, fresh-faced hikers ascend the steep-sided mountain from its trailhead on the east side of the Grouse Mountain parking lot at the north end of Capilano Road, usually in groups of twos and threes. A typical opening line once on top is, 'What's your time?' (If you complete the 1.8-mile/3-km climb, with a elevation gain of 2,760 feet/842 metres, in less than an hour, you're doing better than average. If you beat 32 minutes for men, or 36 minutes for women, you're the champ!) |
| Winter |
| With 1,210 m of vertical, 24 runs for skiing and riding and over 5 km of cross-country trails, Grouse truly is one of Vancouver's premier mountaintop destinations. The adventure begins right from the parking lot as you board North America's largest aerial tramway as it whisks you to 1,100 m above sea level to a snow-capped nirvana. And all of this is only 15 minutes from the city, making it one reason so many Vancouverites take their first steps (and falls) on skis or snowboards here. |
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