Sabbatical 02

Sabbatical Continues
2022-09-26
This day was epic. I had a great morning waking up in Redmond, WA. I walked over to the Redmond Town Center and snapped some nice sunrise photos while waiting for the coffee shop to open up.




After loading up on coffee and food, I headed back to the hotel to just relax for a bit. I used the ArriveCAN website to upload my vaccine records to speed up entry into Canada along with setting up a time and port I was to entry by. I setup for noon so I had time to kill and just caught up with some friends. After leaving, it was an uneventful drive to the crossing. There was a bit of a line, and it took about 20+ minutes to pass through. I used this time to swap my dash display from US to Metric. After crossing, you get into a fairly urban area and it was a lot of jogging around on local street before I could get on the highway to take me north to Whistler. The highway takes you along a mountain coastline and it’s very beautiful. You can look West across Howe Sound and see the mountainous landscape covered in pines. I would have taken pics but driving was more a priority. I arrived at the First Tracks Lodge around 3PM or so. I checked in and brought all my stuff up. I had a ride suggested to me, Lord of the Squirrels Loop and thought I should have plenty of time to do this loop. I did not pay attention to the elevation gain nearly enough and by the time I was heading out it was nearly 5PM. I started on this loop just after 5PM and it was not enough time. Here is how it started:







Then I made it to the top and was treated to some beautiful views due to the sun startting to set.


I should have died!