Yep JohnB,
I can vouch that we've had 11 summers since I started getting up for dawn at High Park. I only live 5 min away so it is not too big a sacrifice I must make (along with the others) to bring summer to Ontario.
Glad you mentioned the women since I'm on a mixed side (and aren't you?). We had a great time over in England hosted by some Ring sides. In fact we forgot we'd started the cycle and kept on going back up when we were with a certain side. They finally asked us if we could stop, and one of their wives was heard to comment that she'd never witnessed that side working so hard!
Back to work now.
Rana