The little town of Hope turned out to be a delight. We loved our quiet 50's style motel, immaculately kept, and the huge trees that shade the town. Where does the forest end and the town begin? We had time for a decent hike and headed out of town for the Kettle Creek trail. This is the path of the railroad tracks, long since removed, that led to the mines. Apparently the tunnels are still accessible with the original hand carts still standing there. It might have been interesting to see but we didn't get that far. But we did enjoy the lush vegetation of the northern rain forest. Moss dripped from the trees, ferns grew to enormous size. It looked at times as if we were in Hawai'i, not Canada. There were a few foot prints of creatures unknown to us, large ones, so we were a bit wary of meeting bears along the way -- an unwanted rendez-vous. Bears are everywhere and in every town we have seen there are bear-proof trash containers. You don't want to encourage them. (There was an amusing video in the Banff Museum of a bear trying to get into one of these containers, yowling with frustration when it couldn't.)
Our last leg of the trip west was to Vancouver itself. The downtown is really quite small but the city itself sprawls in every direction, right down to the US border to the south.
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