Mountain Goat - bus company - was created in 1972.
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Coast Mountain Bus Company was created on 1999-04-01.
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The Coast could be referring to the Coast Mountain Bus run by
Translink in BC. The Coast Mountain Bus Company runs 96% of the
Vancouver region's bus service.
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The tense of the sentence is past. The action of hiking the mountain occurred after a long ride in the junky bus.