Vancouver!!!

All done!

Otherwise a pretty uneventful day.  Got an early start so I could get to Vancouver at a reasonable time, and really just put my head down and powered through the longest day of the entire trip - 97.25 miles from the Tim Hortons in Hope to the beach in Vancouver.  It was cool and cloudy for most of the day.  The mountains started strong around Hope but slowly faded into rolling hills.  Ate lots of wild blackberries along the way - that was one of my favorite parts from California, so I was happy to find them here.

Alicia flies in tonight and tomorrow we head off to Victoria for the next part of our adventure!  So while my fun continues, I'm going to let the blog end here.  If you're keeping score at home, it was 10 days, 745 miles, and lots of swimming, climbing, and peach eating (millions of peaches!). 

But hey - if I turn south, Seattle is only 2 days away, and from there...ahh, it'll have to wait for next year.

Vancouver!

Speeding along

I couldn't get past Hope last night, but that was sort of the original plan.  But, that does leave me with about 100 miles to Vancouver today - fortunately I've already done 65 so I am zooming my way to the end.  Finish strong, Dave!

Awesome downhill

This was the descent into Hope.  It allowed me to forgive the headwind and unexpected uphill before this.  I held steady around 35 MPH and topped out at 42, which seems to be my terminal velocity.  I once hit 43, but on these huge hills I seem to always hit 42 but no faster.  Maybe I need a steeper hill.

Manning Park, part 2

This morning I went out on another hike - a longer one up Windy Joe Mountain, about 5 hours round trip.  I ate too big of a breakfast and felt sort of awful when I started, but that passed as the enormous pancakes I ate were converted into energy (way to go, body!).  I had a nice view from the top.  The pointy mountain to the right is Mount Frosty, the highest point in the park.  The peak to the left is even higher, but is in Washington, USA!  The glow around it must be freedom :)

Manning Park, part 1

It was a ridiculous climb up to Manning Park from Princeton, but at least I had been expecting it.  I got to the park around 3:00, found a campsite, ate a snack and went out for an afternoon hike.  I had heard the Lightning Lakes were nice, so I did a loop around Lightning Lake (the others are Flash, Strike, and Thunder Lakes.  Cute).  It didn't look like much but it took over two hours!  But it was lovely.

Still alive!

Had no service in Manning Park, thus lack of blog updates, or proof of wellbeing for loved ones.

Will post pictures, etc, ASAP!