Saturday August 1st

Norma, Katie, Brian, and Andrea have a plane to catch all the way in Calgary at 2:30pm so they leave at about 5:30am. We were going to get up and pack the car and maybe do one more hike on the way out, but realize how tired we are and go back to bed. We get up eventually, pack and are on the road at 10am. It is another really hot day, so we decided to skip a hike. Who wants to be in a car and then camp sweaty and stinky? Plus, they did some controlled burning and the whole area is fuzzy with smoke and does not offer any good views of mountains. We were going to camp the night at the border of Canada so we could get there with no lines, but it takes us so long to get there that there is no line at 6pm. We cross the border and start to look for camping. Unfortunately, it is about 95 degrees here. There is no way we are camping in that! Plus, if we stop at 7pm, what are we going to do in the heat until dark (10pm)? We make the decision to keep going until the temperature is under 85. Well, that didn't happen until we were an hour away from home. (1am) It has been 90's the whole way. We simply popped in the rest of our Biography on cd about Franklin Roosevelt and listen until just outside of Portland. We get in 10 minutes before 2am. We grab the bare essentials and dive into bed.