Left Houston at 7:40am for Calgary on Air Canada. Then made the connecting flight to Vancouver and flew over Jasper and Banff National Parks. On the approach to Vancouver, we sighted Mount Baker, at 10,775 feet in Washington State, its classic volcanic cone-shaped form rising well above anything else in the area.

At 2pm, we left the airport in our rental car, ashamedly a new 2002 Ford Explorer. We needed some kind of high-clearance vehicle to get to some of the trailheads we were planning on using.

Drove through Vancouver on Hwy. 99 up to Squamish. We checked into our cabin at the Sun Wolf Outdoor Center just outside of Squamish and then proceeded to check out the rock climbing areas we were going to hit the next day.

While scoping out the routes, and watching other climbers, we noticed one gentleman free soloing. He was going up and down routes up to 5.11a and up to 60 feet high. One person said he might have been soloing on the much longer routes of the "Chief" earlier in the day. The Chief has many 2000 foot routes, most of them being difficult, 5.10 and harder. We even talked to this person for a while (he had climbed at Devil's Lake in Wisconsin) and I gave him a spot on a short 5.11a hand-crack.

We went to the Beer Pub to eat. Afterwards, the time was late, so we hit Valhalla (one of the local outdoor gear shops), the IGA grocery store, and then took a quick trip to Shannon Falls before retiring for the night.

Todd started the day leading a 5.6 with several large, detached flakes; called "Corn Flakes," the climb is located in the Neat and Cool area of the Smoke Bluffs. Next, we top-roped the bizarre "Lieback Flake," (5.9) and then the great finger crack to the left called "Flying Circus," rated at 5.10a (I thought it was not any harder than 5.9). Too bad these routes were only 60 feet.

After eating lunch at the crags, we bought some fuel for our camp stove, and then headed to the Alice Lake Provincial Park office and inquired about the area and in particular the Garibaldi Lake hike. After learning we could do the hike in seven hours, we decided to go back to our cabin and get our backpacks ready.

We started from the Garibaldi Lake parking lot at 3:00pm, with six-and-a-half hours of light left in the day. The trail is 9.5 km (about 5.9 miles) one way and gains 810m (about 2,624 feet) in elevation. The first half of the trail is relatively static, as it switchbacks up an area of coastal rainforest. At length we arrived at Lesser Garibaldi Lake and then at 6:00pm to Garibaldi Lake. One can see the Helm Glacier and Gentian Peak as well as the Sphinx Glacier and The Bookworms, Guard Mountain, and Mount Price (2049m). Lots of snow at the elevation of the lake (1460m). Saw about five Gray Jays at the shelter looking for scraps. After cooking dinner on the camp stove in the hut at Garibaldi Lake and talking with a couple that was camping there that night, we started down at 6:30pm. After nearly 12 miles and lots of elevation change, we got back to the trailhead at 9:45pm, just as the sun was setting. We only saw about seven other groups on the trail. A great hike, one that probably should be done in three days with a side trip on day two to the Black Tusk (2315m), a nearby peak whose route to the top is only on class 2 or 3 terrain.

Got up and went to Brandywine Falls Provincial Park, off of Hwy. 99 and took a short hike (5km roundtrip) to the impressive falls. Afterwards, we went up a Brandywine Creek Road, an old, progressively rough logging road. Had to turn around on two different forks, but got far enough in on the road to get good looks at Mount Brew (1740m) and Mount Fee (2130m). This was the day we truly realized how much alpine mountaineering could be done in the Garibaldi region. We'll have to get some lessons and experience before coming back to BC.

Around noon, we arrived via another logging road to the Cheakamus Trailhead. Hiked in and saw the lake and river with its innumerable rainbow trout. Spied a common loon and heard its call. Also saw three American Wigeons on a fallen tree in the river. More mountaineering opportunities here! This was about 8km (about 5miles) roundtrip with many other people on this trial.

Afterwards we explored the town of Whistler a bit, then came back to Squamish to eat at Quizno's.

In the evening, we took a gravel road up to the Diamond Head trailhead, about 10km. Ate our subs there and then drove back down to a scenic pullout and took some pictures. Talked to some mountain bikers who were going down a single-track starting at that pullout.

Later yet in the evening, we went down the Squamish Valley Rd, turning around between the 27- and 28-mile markers. Talked with a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer for about 30 minutes after we turned around. Around mile 18, there is a good view of a bit of the Tantalus Range and a glacier, right above a business called "Glacier Valley Farms."

Went to Deep Cove, north of Vancouver to go kayaking. Got two single kayaks and went out for about two hours. We paddled about 5km roundtrip. Walked around Deep Cove and then went to the Capilano Suspension Bridge. Then went to Horseshoe Bay and walked around for about 10 minutes.

Came back to Squamish and bought the Cheakamus River topographic map. Went to the IGA and bought butter, OJ, bread, and cookies. Then went back to our cabin to eat dinner.

At 6:45pm we started down the Squamish Valley Road again, but this time turned right and went over the Squamish River to go down the Ashlu Creek/Canyon Road. Good views of rapids and the Tantalus Range the first two or three miles. Continued about 3 more miles, until about mile marker 27. Turned back at 8:15pm after the road got rougher and the sights less spectacular. Got back to our cabin at 9:05pm. Then got ready for climbing and hiking the next day.

Didn't do any climbing like we had planned, it was raining off and on the whole day. I was also feeling really beat in the morning. We went to Alice Lake Provincial Park and walked around Stump Lake. We saw one Stella's Jay and one hummingbird. About 12:15pm we headed to Squamish to get more film from IGA and walked around downtown. After eating lunch, we headed up to Shannon Falls and then decided to hike up the backside of the Chief. It was a tough hike with all of the elevation gain (550m, 1804 feet) in only 5km roundtrip. Started around 1:00pm and took three hours to get up to the first summit and 2:45 to get down.

Stopped at Valhalla right before they closed and bought a #3 Black Diamond Cam. Rock gear is cheaper in Canada right now when you figure in the exchange rate. It was too good of a deal to pass up. After wards, we stopped at Quizno's to pick up supper. We ate outside with a great view of the Chief.

After returning to the cabin, we got ready to leave Squamish by packing our gear into the car.

Got up early to check out of our cabin and pack up the rest of our stuff. Went to Jofre Lakes Provincial Park amidst rain. It did clear up a bit at the trailhead. We ate an early lunch in the car and decided to camp overnight at Upper Jofre Lake. We left the car by 11 am and reached the Upper Jofre Lake camping area at 1:30 (5.5 km trip up to the upper lake, 400m elevation gain). It rained most of the way up but it had stopped for good by the time we reached the Upper Lake. The only wildlife we saw were Gray Jay's eagerly waiting for hikers to drop some food. We picked a dry spot that was free of snow for setting up camp. At about 2:45 we went up the Tszil Mountain Trail. We then traversed east after a while to get below the Stonecrop Glacier which is at about 1680m elevation. We then continued our traverse until we reached the bottom right of Matier Glacier which is at about 1800m elevation. It was probably a 2.5 - 3 km roundtrip to and from the glaciers. We did not stay for long up high because there were seracs falling off on the far left side of the glacier. Through out the hike up and down from the glaciers we saw many pikas.

We cooked dinner down by the lake. Everyone else had left, so we had the place to ourselves and were the only ones camping. During dinner we watched one big serac collapse and tumble. After dinner, we hiked to the waterfall directly above the lake.

Upon return to camp, we organized the tent for the night and went to bed.

Heather awoke in the middle of the night to see a little deer mouse climbing on the outside of the tent. Upon her announcing his presence with gleeful shout "I think there is a mouse on our tent," it quickly got off. Todd never did see the mouse.

We got up early to pack up camp and head out. We started out by 8:00 and came across a group of mountaineers who were going to go up the East Side of Matier Glacier in order to ascend the Matier Peak. We got to the car at about 10:45. So we made good time going down the 5.5 km trail that was still extremely muddy from the previous day's rains. It was now time for a long scenic drive towards Kamloops despite it being slightly overcast with some light rain at times.

After getting several miles down the road, we came across a marmot crossing the road. We then stopped at Duffey Lake Provincial Recreational Area for a quick picture. We took another picture break at Seton Lake Reservoir. We then ate lunch at Marble Canyon Provincial Park. After this stop, we did a continous drive to Kamloops. From Marble Canyon, the terrain changed because we were in a Canadian dessert region known as the Okanogon.

We reached Kamloops around 3:30 leaving us plenty of time to find lodging, get a good dinner, and check out Kamloops. We stayed at a place called Dream Lodge. It was a great deal for everything they had. We then went to the Keg Steakhouse to celebrate our anniversary. Great food! Upon our return to the hotel, we wrote up all of our postcards.

Got up early so that we could eat our continental breakfast, pack up the car, get gas and stop at the post office before heading north to Wells Gray Provincial Park. We finally were on our way at about 10:30.

We stopped in the small town of Clearwater to eat lunch at The Covered Wagon. It was definitely a place that the locals favored. They had good food and good service. After lunch we continued another 40 km until we reached Wells Gray Provincial Park.

Upon reaching the park, it was overcast and raining at times. We stopped at Dawson Falls for some pictures and a short walk. We saw a little black bear on the side of the road on the way to our next stop at Helmcken Falls. This waterfall is about two times higher than Niagara Falls. After this stop, we drove up to Clearwater Lake via a gravel road. We stopped briefly for a picture due to the constant rain at this time. We did see a loon out on the lake and many Winter Wrens near the waterfall lookouts. Due to the rain, we did not do much hiking.

We left the park and went to our chalet (Wells Gray Gateway Chalet) which is located just south of the park entrance. The chalet was a beautiful log cabin that did not have a phone, radio, or TV. We loved being secluded in our little cabin in the woods. Our bed was up in the loft. There also was a bedroom downstairs that had bunks. There was a huge living room with two futons and an awesome wooden rocker. If you weren't careful, you could rock all the way over. We unpacked and were able to finally do some laundry. We cooked dinner and started the wood-burning furnace since it was a cool and damp evening. At the chalet we saw a Rufous Hummingbird and several American Redstart Warblers. It appeared that a Warbler made the tree outside of our chalet it's home since we saw it constantly. There were numerous trails that were accessible right from the cabin but never explored them. We chose to stay out of the rain and relax by the fire before going to bed.

Since it rained all night, we decided we wanted to hold off on our Trophy Mountain attempt. Instead, we drove to the Green Mountain viewing tower. Although it was overcast, there was a great view of many surrounding peaks. We also took pictures of several different kinds of plants/flowers. One was a type of Heather. We then drove to the Philip Lake & Table Mountain trailhead via a 4x4 road.

We started hiking around 10:30 am and got to Philips Lake at about 11:20. We ate lunch at the lake and then decided that we would take a side trip up towards Table Mountain at about noon so that we could get a good view of the Trophies Peak area (lots of snow on those peaks). We saw snow and went through snow many times on the trail. We did get close to the summit at about 2:15 but there was so much snow that it did not make the true summit worthwhile. Not that it would have been difficult, it is a minor peak, more like a big hill. However, with the thunder we were hearing and snow pellets that lasted for about 30 seconds, we decided to turn around. It did rain slightly on our way down. We headed straight down and got back to the car around 4:15. The hike was a total of 16 km round trip (3km to the lake and 8km to table mountain) with about 450 m in elevation gain.

Although, we did not see any other people, we saw lots of droppings/scat and animal tracks. We were able to identify Mountain Caribou dropping, wolf tracks, and bear tracks. We also saw geese at Philips Lake and a Mountain Toad on the way out. Stella's Jays and Winter Wrens were common in the lower parts of the trail as well.

After returning to the car, we drove out via the 4x4 road, which was now muddier than when we started and returned to the cabin. We cooked dinner and enjoyed the wood-burning furnace again. We turned in early knowing that we were going to be getting up early so that we may attempt to reach the true summit of the Trophy Mountains.

We woke up at about 6:30 and reached the trailhead via a 14 km 4x4 road at about 7:45 am. We stated our hike up to the Trophy Meadow and saw nobody else the whole way up. We made lots of noise going through the woods and through the meadow for fear of grizzlies and black bear since the trail started at the end of a huge clear-cut, goes into the forest quickly, and ends at a huge flower filled meadow before rising to the mountains. It was a clear and sunny day. On the way up to the meadow we saw what we later learned to be wolf scat--it had fur and bones in it. We also saw lots of deer tracks.

We reached the meadow about an hour after starting. It was beautiful because it was packed full of upside-down yellow flowers known as Glacier Lilies and other yellow flowers known as Yellow Mountain Heather's. The glacier lilies only grow in areas such as this due to the right soil from the glacier and the huge amounts of snow in the area yearly. It is a relative open area with pine tree islands called atolls. It was at this point the trail became muddy and the ground was squishy from all the water runoff due to snow melting and two nights of previous rain. Within the meadow there is an old sheepherder's hut that is made of "entirely natural materials" using only an axe. It was here that we took a short break to eye up our path through some upcoming snowfields.

We continued through the meadow, which was about 1 km long and 800m wide. We also had to leave the trail often because of all the snow and the fact that we did not want to posthole. We finally arrived at the end of the meadow at a ridge where beyond drops into a deep valley. >From this ridge, we could see the Trophy Mountain Ridge (A band of continuos peaks in a "Y" formation.), Sheila Lake just below us to the North, and Raft Peak to the southeast. Since it was clear, we were also able to see Clearwater Lake and Mahood Lake off on the horizon. We reached this point around 9:30-10:00 and took a short break for pictures and a snack.

The next section of the hike required some route-finding, as there was no clearly identifiable trail up to the Trophies ridge and any trial that might exist was buried under the snow half of the time. We studied a probable line up. We dropped down into an old glacial valley and tried to keep to mini rock ridges that were free of snow, but we often had to cross snow, and when crossing them, we often postholed. In large part, we were able to keep on top of the snow.

After reaching the bottom of this saddle and continuing up towards the appropriate col leading to the Trophies Ridge, we spied and heard a marmot. Initially we thought it was a badger by its facial appearance but we didn't think that this could be true. It was in fact a marmot as we learned later. We watched it for about 5-10 minutes as it was watching us and making noises to alarm other marmots that we were present. From this point, we saw many marmot tracks in the snow as well as tracks of a hare. We then continued up until we finally reached ground consisting of squishy alpine plants and rock, later becoming grasses and rock and finally broken talus. The route finding continued here until we were just below the col we had spied from the previous ridge.

Just below the col we ate lunch. It was warm and sunny, so Heather dried out her socks as they post-holing had caused snow to get into and soak her boats. We forgot the gaiters at the cabin. After a lengthy rest, we continued up and performed a little more route finding over the talus. From this point we could see down to Table Mountain, the hike from the previous day as well as to Mt. Phillip and Battle Mountain. Just above the col to the east, we saw a white-tailed ptarmigan at about 6300ft. The ground up from the col to the peak was mainly talus-like with some soil consisting of fragile alpine moss and alpine plants growing form it.

We finally arrived at the first Trophy Mountain summit (West Summit) at 12:45. This is at an elevation of 2515 elevation. We took many pictures and Todd coveted the West Ridge that leads to the true Trophy Mountain Summit at 2577m. However, this would have a required a lengthy descent followed by an ascent requiring some scrambling on a 45 degree slope. Form our vantage point we could see a part of the Candian Rockies to the East and Southeast, Raft Peak to the Southeast, Clearwater River valley, the route we came up from the meadow, and the to the North the vast expanse of the rest of Wells Gray Park. The North face drops precipitously and is covered in snow and was topped with a continuous line of old cornices. We stayed at the peak until 1:15 enjoying the view.

We took our time on the way down to ensure we didn't injure ourselves or go the wrong way. Some of our previous tracks in the snow were hard to pick out after the sun had melted them. After getting all the way back to the ridge above the valley and meadow we stopped for a break and some food.

After five or ten minutes of continuing down from the ridge, we saw the first people we had seen all day. Two park service employees were camped out just below the high ridge. The two gentleman's duties were spending the summer making observations on use of the park and its visitor impacts. Sometimes they must be flown to the location of their assignment. They also gave us great information regarding many of the tracks, scat, and droppings that we saw.

Further down, we saw a woman and probably her grandmother in the meadow. This was an extremely big hike for this grandmother who looked to be 70-75 years of age. We also saw another couple resting even further down.

We got back to the car at about 5:45 pm, very tired and a little sore. This was a great 22km hike round-trip with a 700m ascent. It was great day. On the way out on the 4x4 road we saw a mother Spruce Grouse and 5 babies as well as a few prairie dogs.

We returned to the cabin for dinner and a shower. Afterwards, we started packing, as we had to depart in the morning for our long drive to Hope.

Woke up around 6:15-6:30am and prepared to leave the Clearwater Gateway Chalet. When taking our things out to the car, Roland Neave (the owner & author of a Wells Gray Hiking Book) came over from the Trophies Lodge next door. We talked for about 30 minutes about his father and his ascents of Garnet Peak. There also is a mountain near Garnet that remains unclimbed and is named after his father, Hugh Neave. Roland also gave us some suggestions for where to go in Hope and Manning Provincial Park.

We finally departed and traveled back to Clearwater for a quick stop at the visitor's center in an attempt to get a topographic map of the Trophies Ridge area. No luck--they were out. So, we then headed to Kamloops in hope of picking up a map there. We tried to find two businesses that sold maps, but one was not to be found and the other was closed. We gave up on trying to get a map and headed south for Hope via the Coquihalla Hwy. This is also a tollway with only one stop in Merritt on the whole 200km stretch.

Upon arriving to Hope, we booked two nights at the Red Roof Inn in Hope for a good deal. We relaxed a bit before heading out for some small day trips. We went to the Coquihalla Tunnels that were constructed for the purpose of a train route through the Coquihalla Canyon. The railway is converted to a great bike and hiking path. We only hiked in through the first 4 tunnels for a short 2km trip. There are a total of 150km of trails and 13 tunnels. We then drove to the rest area over looking the Hope Slide. This is a huge rockslide remains after the peak of the mountain collapsed as a result of an earthquake in the 1960's.

We went to subway to eat. While we were eating we saw some gliders circling the valley around Hope. Heather saw an ad earlier in a tourist publication about taking glider rides. We decided to go to the Hope airport and to at least watch if not get Todd on a flight. Upon getting there, they said they could still take Todd. A little later, Heather also was persuaded into taking a flight and went up with the president of the Vancouver Soaring Association (Jim). They had to put extra weight in to the plane and she then she was fitted into a parachute. The glider is towed up behind a small, motorized plane and released at an altitude of 2000ft above ground level. As Todd was getting ready in another glider with his pilot Colin, Heather and Jim took off. About 15 minutes later Todd and Colin took off. Todd actually pulled the lever to release the glider from the tow. The take off and tow were turbulent because the towrope became slack and then tight again at least twice. Colin and Todd were below Jim and Heather most of the time. Colin allowed Todd to fly the plan near the end of his 40-45 min. ride. Heather did not want to fly the glider but chose to let Jim to do all the flying. Todd did two 360 turns--one right & one left. With the guidance of Colin, he also did a negative-g maneuver by pushing the stick down to increase speed to 80 knots, pulling up the stick and then pushing back down. Colin did two or three "wing-overs" -- similar to hammerheads. Meanwhile Jim took Heather for a more casual glide up and over Mount Hope and into the end of the valley. The sun was just about to set and provided good lighting for taking pictures from the glider. Both of us got up to about 3600-3900 ft above sea level with the airport at 128 ft. And, we both had smooth landings.

After our flights, we were both invited to stay for the potluck dinner the club was having as well as to hear a speaker from director of the "The Big Jump" (a record-breaking free fall from 40km high to be attempted between Aug. 15^th & Sept. 15 2001 near Saskatoon, Saskatchewan).

At the potluck, Todd met a gentleman named Hans who directed a large project the company involved in making the Canadian built space station robot arm. He told a story of how the shoulder joint experienced a problem with its secondary systems. One of NASA's approved bus controller chips had a bug in it and NASA never bothered to mention to anyone this problem. He told of how they diagnosed and used a software patch to get around the problem.

By the time the speaker was over and we got back to the hotel it was about midnight. We were ready for bed!

Today is Canada Day and the reason we had to stay in hotels for the remainder of this trip. This is equivalent to the 4^th of July in the US. Thus, everybody was out and about for their long weekend as well as this was the first weekend of summer for all Canadian children.

We managed to get up at 7:30 despite our late night. We headed east to Manning Provincial Park. We stopped at the Cascades lookout and got a great view. We then drove up a gravel road to reach the Heather Meadow Trailhead at Blackwall Peak (2063m). The trail loses about 100m in elevation before going back up. We got started on our hike to the First Brother Mountain Summit (2272m) at 10:00 and reached the summit at 12:50. We sat down right at the summit marker and enjoyed the view while we ate a bit. We finally turned around and headed back to the car around 1:20 and got back around 4:00. This was a round trip of about 18k and we saw many people on this trail (at least 20). We saw more people on this trail then we did anywhere else.

We stopped at the Manning Park Lodge & Store, but were not impressed. We then drove over to the Lightning Lake Day use area to cook our meal via camp stove. We ate and relaxed until about 6:00. Throughout the day we saw many Gray Jays and Clark's Nutcrackers that would beg for food or pick up scraps that others left for them. At the lake prairie dogs doing the same surrounded us.

We slept in and got up well after 8:00. We packed up the car and again and headed for Ross Lake within the North Cascades National Park (US) and Skagit Valley Provincial Park. We drove via a long gravel road through Skagit Valley until we reached Ross Lake. We then crossed the US border (no customs at this point) and entered the North Cascades Park. The gravel road ended on the American side with a campground and boat launch and access to 20-mile long trails that will get you to the main roads of the Cascades. We parked at the boat launch and walked around. There were some decent views. However, the water level was extremely low due to Washington selling power and water to California. Thus, we saw lots of stumps that are remains from the previous location of old forest growth that once existed before Ross Lake was formed via the dam.

After Ross Lake, we drove back to Hope for lunch and then started our drive towards Vancouver. We took a pit stop at Bridal Veil Falls Provincial Park for a quick look at the water fall and short 30 minute hike roundtrip. This park was extremely crowded so we didn't stay long. About an hour later we took another pit stop and headed up a gravel road south of Sardis near Cultus Lake so that we may catch a glimpse of Slesse Mountain (2429m). It has rock climbing routes to the summit. We were misled into thinking there was a park that looked at the Mountain. In fact, it was just Army and forest service roads that had no pullouts or parks. We just turned around decided to continue our way towards Vancouver on Hwy 1. While driving from Abbotsford to Vancouver, Mount Baker was constantly in sight through the rearview mirror as well as through the driver's side mirror. At this point we were as close as 4 km to the US border as far as 29km when in Vancouver.

Once near Richmond and Vancouver, it became clear that we were going to go through a tunnel under the Fraser River. Heather was driving and enjoyed the fact that this was her first time driving underneath a river. Once through the tunnel, we were in Richmond, a southern suburb to Vancouver and the location of the Vancouver International Airport. We drove to our hotel, the Airport Comfort Inn. After checking in, we went out for supper for some good sandwiches at Boston Pizza. We knew that we would be coming back to this place for supper tomorrow to try out their pizzas. After eating, we returned to our room and began to pack up everything we did not need for our return flight in order to make tomorrow a nice relaxing day.

We slept in today knowing that we were not going to be traveling very far. Today was our day to explore Vancouver, Richmond, and Steveston. We started out the day exploring a part of Vancouver known as Kitsillano. Here is where we found a great deal on a new pair of hiking boots for Heather. These boots are sure to keep her feet much drier. This area is known for the many small shops and local restaurants located up and down several streets. We then headed to the shopping district within the West Asia Region of Richmond. The malls here are not much different than those in the US however, many of the clothing styles and toys appeared geared towards Asian youth and had quite a Japanese flavor to them. We were able to find some more Canadian type treats for family members and pick up so gifts. Afterwards, we head to the old fishing village of Steveston. This is one of the larger fishing villages in Canada even larger than Nova Scotia. We enjoyed the view of Mount Baker on the horizon and walked around the village checking out some local shops. We even enjoyed some handmade candies. Afterwards, we headed back into the Richmond-Vancouver area for a good pizza at Boston's Pizza. We followed this with a walk on the dyke at Iona Beach Park located right next to Vancouver International Airport on Sea Island. It was here that we saw an American coot as well as Mallard Ducks and other wrens. By this time the sun was setting and it was time to call it a night.

Unfortunately, we had to leave Canada to return to Houston. We got up early and headed for the airport knowing that we had to check-in and potentially deal with customs in Vancouver. As it turned out, our flight got changed and was leaving an hour earlier than scheduled. Thank goodness we gave ourselves plenty of time and we didn't have to go through customs until we reached Calgary. On this flight, we were sitting on the other side of the plane so we were unable to see Mount Baker. Until Calgary, we were able to see parts of the Canadian Rockies as well as other mountain ranges. After leaving Calgary, we did not have much of a view. We were back to hot and humid Houston by 7:00 and back to our house by 8:00. Needless to say, we did not want to leave British Columbia.