5 miles Haines

Spent the whole day in town getting ready for our ride to Anchorage.  We both sent out some postcards and made some phone calls.  Right next to the library was a market with some yummy organic foods.  Haines is a really beautiful little town.  As we rode into it this morning we came around a corner and the grey clouds opened up letting the light come down on the little homes that were cradled by snow-capped mountains.  Didn't have any choice getting out of town, there's only one road.  We set up tent next to the river and started a fire.  We know that we're not suppose to camp by rivers but there was no other place tonight.  Very late in the night I heard some noises outside of the tent.  At first it was the sound of something moving through the brush, then it was a splashing in the water.  Then it was the blood-curdling roar of a grizzly!  I woke up Chris and he said that he heard it too but thought he had dreamt it.  We stayed awake for a little while, listening, and the roar came again.  I was up all night, with a bike wrench and bear spray, and chris succeeded in getting back to sleep.