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Well, I pray for Canada. I took my boy up there fishing once. It's beyond beautiful, in my view. I found the stories of the local 'old timers' there I met to be fascinating. Our fishing guide, (captain) took pity on us 'Gretskynappers' for the foul weather and not catching any fish. He actually extended his deployment for us free of charge until a fish was caught. With waves increasing in size, he had to finally call it in and I remember him announcing we needed to return to port. With fishing rods still hanging over the sides, we started to return to shore. All of us were disheartened. Even the captain was in low spirits. As he apologizing to me for the inopportune experience, I remember looking back astern and I saw my boy sitting with his face in his hands. This epitomized our entire experience. But then I noticed the fishing pole to the left of him was bent 'way' over. We had a fish on the line. My son struggled to reel it in, but we caught that fish and it was over 22 pounds of lake trout. What an ending to a very trying day! For making the our experience happen, I was grateful and I had to 'tip him' for his sincere effort and being so good to us. It was a very memorable trip.

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Great story! I'm glad you enjoyed it in the end. Most of the real Canadians live outside of the city, and they usually have big hearts.

I'm in Vancouver. I just bought an ebike that I'm planning on riding 100 miles east of here to go camping in the mountains for a few days. I'm getting old and it might be the last chance I ever get.

https://files.catbox.moe/tbjddt.JPG

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Nice. The trip sounds 'squatchy'.

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I had to look that up...

https://blog.timesunion.com/outdoors/its-getting-squatchy-in-here/8113/#:~:text=Adjective%20describing%20an%20eerie%20moment,This%20area%20seems%20real%20squatchy.&text=(Adjective)%20Derived%20from%20the%20characteristics,i.e.%20being%20stinky%20and%20hairy.

Where I'm going is definitely Sasquatch territory.

Here's a couple of pictures of the area, from when I camped there a few years ago:

https://files.catbox.moe/qgocp5.JPG

https://files.catbox.moe/966ndc.JPG

Five miles up a logging road from Hope, BC, I'm in the thick of it and completely alone with nature.