Day 52: Winter Zip-Lining at Grouse Mountain
February 21st, 2011
For the real adventure junkie, enjoy an extreme zip-lining experience atop Grouse Mountain. Strapped safely into harnesses, riders reach speeds of 80 kilometres per hour along five separate tracks hung high in the forest canopy, up to 70 metres above ground. Expect to zip above snow-covered evergreen trees, over icy cliffs and even into the vertigo-inducing canyon between Grouse Mountain and ...
Visit the Emily Carr University of Art and Design on Granville Island this weekend, and enjoy any or all of their three galleries. The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea Part I, is displaying at Charles H. Scott Gallery until February 20th and is the first in a series about the sea that will take place at the gallery over the next three years. Be sure to also check out the Media and Concourse Gall ... 
The 19th Annual Wellness Show will provide you with all the resources you need to help find balance in your life. There will be celebrity cooking stages featuring healthy local ingredients; seminar stages to entertain and educate you in good health, nutrition, physical and emotional being; demonstration stages for you to take part in various forms of yoga, pilates, meditation and pole walking ... 
A late-night invitation for drinks at George and Martha’s descends into a boozy game of cat and mouse in this raw portrait of a marriage mired in regret and bitterness. The bitter aging couple use a young couple to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards one another, yet the young couple stay, even as the abuse is periodically turned towards them. On now until March 12th at the Granville Isla ... 
If you’ve got a hankering for an incredibly scrumptious burger, look no further than Vera’s Burger Shack. Their selection of burgers is incredible. Whether you’d like a single patty or double, beef or chicken or lamb or veggie, an egg or guacamole or chili as toppings, they have something for everyone. Try any of their specialty burgers and the combination of flavours will wow you. With locat ... 
Get out in the rain like a true Vancouverite and embrace the rainy weather in a rainforest! Go for a light hike through Lighthouse Park and enjoy the magnificent old growth Western Red Cedar and Douglas Fir trees. The trails are fairly easy with only short hills on some of the routes. Make sure to take a look at the park map so you can plan your route and end at the Point Atkinson Lighthouse! ...