Talk:Grouse Mountain

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See talk at Category_talk:Canadian_ski_resorts regarding Grouse's categorization as a "ski resort". Thanks! --Ds13 15:11, 2005 May 27 (UTC)

removed this line:

Information on the Grouse Grind

from the external links, because it is broken. Anyone with a correct replacement, go for it.

I've restored the link. It should be .asp, not .htm/ Pburka 00:08, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Mountain Highway (North Vancouver)[edit]

Noting this:

Public access to the mountain is by a Swiss Garaventa aerial tramway, the Grouse Grind hiking trail, or the Old Grouse Mountain Highway (foot and bicycle access only).

Other than noting the road is still used by service trucks, it was actually just Mountain Highway all the way to the top, before it was gated; I'm not sure that there's a street article or would just pipe that link...Skookum1 (talk) 17:53, 23 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There's not; the bluelink Mountain Highway is to an Australian highway; so I dabbed the title above; not that it will ever need a road article but if it ever does that's the dab needed.Skookum1 (talk) 17:55, 23 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I emailed Grouse Mountain to confirm that bikes are allowed up mountain highway, but was informed that Bikes are not permitted on the private road. The lower section of the Mountain highway is used by mountain bikers, but you're not allowed to use the Mountain Highway path all the way to the top.

Openstreetmap shows where the Private section of road starts...and the private section is what made me double check the status of biking up there. 70.79.146.225 (talk) 04:32, 7 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Still a fair number of unsourced statements/paragraphs while some existing citations are missing some parameters. A photo gallery is discouraged -- some photos should be inserted into the article and others should be removed. A trivia section is also discouraged. RedWolf (talk) 04:59, 7 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Last edited at 04:59, 7 August 2010 (UTC). Substituted at 16:46, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Number of "steps"[edit]

2830 steps is the commonly given number and listed on Grouse Mountain's official website. An earlier page of the same site several years ago gave the number as 2380, almost certainly indicating a transposition error of one or the other. Does the current figure represent a correction from their own data sheet, or is the transposition an error that has become stuck? I suspect that that number isn't an actual step-count but a calculated figure based on the total vertical rise of the hike, because an article, 2019

https://www.burrardstreetjournal.com/grouse-grind-reopens-now-with-75-more-steps/

indicates that trail reconstruction/lengthening of that year had increased the number (not given) of steps from whatever to "5,000". This figure seems exceptionally high, for one who has hiked the grind twice; but on the other hand the vast majority of steps is on the order of 6 inches or less. There is extant a full youtube video of one complete hike, ~40 minutes. If anyone with patience wants to watch the video to count the steps the lazy way, be my guest and post it here. Who cares if it's original research? This is the only way we'll get to the truth of the matter. Even Grouse Mountain concedes in their FAQ:

"Who counted the [2830] steps?"

"We don't know!..."

JohndanR (talk) 03:54, 26 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]