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The last all hands meeting: PI Steve Harder (UTEP) at right. |
| The trailer is loaded - so it's time to start the many hours of driving back to Vancouver. The old Gold Rush houses are still named for the number of miles they are from Lillooet, B.C. |
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At UBC in Vancouver, a cab waits to take volunteer Shelbie to the airport for her return to Virginia Tech. |
| Dropping off a colleagure at the airport, we espy the as-yet-unlit welcoming sign for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. |
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Back at UBC, more team members are on their way home. Here, Tina, Gaelle, Erin, and Tim pose for the camera. |
| While we were taking data up north, a bike lane was installed in the Burrard Bridge to downtown Vancouver. EPIC's Mike Johnson and Dave Thomas (shown here) try it out on the way to Stanley Island Park. |
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Most of Stanley Island Park is off-limits to cars. Bikes and pedestrians are everywhere. Here is a blue heron at the park's Lost Lagoon. |
| Michael Johnson poses on front of the Stanley Park totem poles. |
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At English Bay, we find a statue of Inukshuk; this is the icon for the 2010 Olympics. An Inukshuk is a pile of rocks intended to act for or represent a person. |
| Finally, it's the EPIC team's turn to get back home. Mike and Dave wait for a taxi at the UBC dorm. |
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Back in Albuquerque, the familiar batholiths of the Sandias beckon. Having met their much younger cousins in Bella Coola, we appreciate their great age all the more. |
