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Yes, you can walk over the Granville Street Bridge in Vancouver. The walk, including bridge approaches is approximately 1 kilometer and offers views of downtown Vancouver, False Creek, and English Bay. Sidewalks on both sides are narrow, and may be shared with cyclists. To reach Granville Island on foot, the best approach is to use the bridge’s east sidewalk, but use the crosswalk at the end to stay on Granville Street. Further along there will be steps on the left leading down to Granville Loop Park and from there walk back under the bridge towards Granville Island.

The Vancouver Canucks ice hockey team plays its home games at Rogers Arena (formerly called GM Place) in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia.

For Vancouver Canucks hockey games at Rogers Arena, doors open 1 hour before puck drop. Executive suites are open 2 hours prior to the start of the game.

Vancouver’s Gastown Steam Clock was steam powered but now uses an electric motor to wind the clock mechanism and steam to produce a tuneful whistle every quarter hour.

The first Starbucks in Canada opened in Vancouver on March 1, 1987 at the Waterfront Seabus Skytrain Station. It was the first Starbucks store outside Seattle and the company’s first international location.

Vancouver’s tallest building is the Living Shangri-La skyscraper which is 201.2 metres (or 660 feet) tall.

The Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver is named for The Lions, a pair of pointed peaks along the North Shore Mountains overlooking the city. The bridge’s official name is the First Narrows Bridge.

Arthur Laing was a Canadian politician and Liberal Member of Parliament for Vancouver South between 1949 and 1953, and again from 1962 to 1972. In 1953, he became leader of the BC Liberals and was elected to the British Columbia legislature to represent Vancouver-Point Grey from 1953 to 1956. He was appointed by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau as a Senator of Canada in 1972. The Arthur Laing Bridge over the North Arm of the Fraser River and connecting Granville Street in Vancouver with Sea Island in Richmond was named in his honour and officially opened on May 15th, 1976. The south end of the bridge is located close to his birthplace, Eburne, a community that once existed on the northeast corner of Sea Island.

The nearest gas station to YVR airport is Petro-Canada on the airport approach road, just before the terminal buildings and rental car return. Gas prices are more expensive than off-airport gas stations but it is a convenient place to refuel before returning a rental car. The full serve gas station is open 24 hours a day and has a convenience store and ATM.

The Grouse Grind trailhead is near Grouse Mountain’s Valley Station Skyride aerial tramway terminal at 6400 Nancy Greene Way, North Vancouver, British Columbia.

The nearest hotels to the Abbotsford Centre are the Travelodge By Wyndham Abbotsford Bakerview and the Super 8 by Wyndham. They are neighbouring hotels located 2.5 kilometres away (5 minutes by car or 30 minutes on foot) on Sumas Way, Abbotsford, British Columbia.

A complete loop of Thetis Lake can be completed in around 1 hour on foot, assuming ground conditions are good. Located 10 kilometres (or 6.5 miles) west of Victoria, BC, Thetis Lake is split into Upper Thetis Lake and Lower Thetis Lake, connected by a narrow culvert. The 4.8 kilometre (or 3 mile) long main trail encircles both lakes, beginning and ending at the main beach near the parking area. The trail can be shortened to a circuit of just one of the two lakes by returning via the Trillium Trail which intersects the middle of the lake.

You can walk from Creekside to Whistler Village along the Valley Trail, a year-round paved trail that offers a safer alternative route away from the traffic of Highway 99. The scenic trail begins opposite Evolution in Creekside, passing underneath Highway 99 and continues past Nita Lake, through Lakeside Park, eventually emerging in Whistler Village. The well-signposted trail is approximately 5 kilometres (or 3 miles) long and takes under an hour at a moderate pace. The Valley Trail is shared with other walkers and cyclists, so keep right and allow others to pass if necessary.

The capital city of British Columbia is Victoria on Vancouver Island.

Blackcomb Gondola opens daily at 8:30 am during ski season and at 10 am during the summer sightseeing season, although lift operation is weather dependent and times may vary. The Blackcomb Gondola runs from the base of Blackcomb Mountain by the Blackcomb Daylodge in the Upper Village and the ride takes 18 minutes to the top. Opened in December 2018, the Blackcomb Gondola replaced the old Wizard Express and Solar Coaster chairlifts to offer skiers and non-skiers a fully-enclosed year-round ride up to Rendezvous Lodge and the PEAK 2 PEAK Gondola over to Whistler Mountain.

The last major volcanic eruption of lava at Mount Baker occurred some 6,700 years ago. However, it is still an active volcano and there have been significant hydrothermal eruptions as recently as 1880. Since the mid 1970s, reheating has been detected along with increased emissions of hot steam and gases from fumaroles, or vent holes, in the mountain’s Sherman Crater, but no signs that renewed magmatic activity is involved.

Reality TV star Gabe Rygaard was killed in a car accident on US-101 near Port Angeles, Washington on September 16th, 2016, aged 45. Rygaard had previously appeared on seasons two through nine of the History Channel’s reality TV show Ax Men which chronicled the activities of his family-owned logging business.

On March 22nd, 2014 at 10:37 am, the deadliest landslide in US history engulfed the community around Steelhead Haven, about 4 miles east of Oso, Washington. A portion of tree-covered hillside above the North Fork Stillaguamish River gave way, sending masses of mud and timber flowing across the river, through the Steelhead Haven neighborhood and onto State Route 530. The debris field covered an area of approximately 1 square mile (or 2.5 square kilometers), and was up to 70 feet (or 21 meters) deep in places. The mudslide killed 42 people in the residential area and one in a car travelling on the highway, and left 4 with serious injuries. A memorial at the site includes 43 cedar trees planted in honor of each of the lives lost, and Highway 530 was officially renamed as Oso Slide Memorial Highway. The cause of the mudslide is believed to be soil instability caused by water saturation after heavy rainfall.