Vancouver is a beautiful city. In the city tall buildings are growing as fast as the summer weeds. More progress, more people, more space being filled. Soon I am walking in Stanley Park, where the Fraser River meets the Pacific. There is a sea-wall walk for miles.
Habits are hard to break.
But now when I pass people, they can hardly risk eye contact. A big change from a trail encounter with a fellow hiker eager to share the adventures of the day. The great escape. The camping stores are filled with high quality useful items to make our trips comfortable on our forays into the wild. Long trails are long trips and it gets heavy folks.