Ride the Giant. The trip up. hot hot hot

In an almost unheard of precident. no one was late, so we made the noon ferry as planned. I should have known this might be a highlight of the trip to summerland. With a 40 litre tank, its not wise to pass a gas station, but impatiant from dealing with heavy traffic in vancouver, I bet Dion that we could make it from abbotsford to Merriet on one tank, as we approached hope, the gauge read 3/4 tank, while that seemed a bit high, i passed the last gas station with confidence. about 2 min later as we started up the mountain, the float decided to do its job and suddenly we had less than a half tank. now stressing about that, i didn't notice how hot the van was getting as we climbed the coquihalla. The van overheated pretty hard just past the avalanche tunnels and spewing coolant and steam we pulled over. Forced to chill out for an hour while it cooled down, Dion and Jepp took the time to play with their fancy camera's and take pictures of things not skateboarding. The eh teamed passed, obviously their rad was newer than ours. We rolled into Merriet on fumes, enjoyed dinner and stocked up on coolant. The super hot day was not kind to the van, and by the time we got to the campsite, it was well after 9pm. we set camp, (and by that, i mean got drunk and slept on the ground) and awaited the next morning with excitment, none of the crew had ever ridden Giants head before.