DAY 8, June 21,2010

We woke up to hard rain -- rained all night. We decided it was not a good idea to even try leaving our dry shelter, so we built a fire to stay warm and do lots of reading today. First, though, Connie and Christian offered to drive us back up the road a few miles to that French bakery for breakfast. Yum!! Connie spotted a bear just outside our campground and all day long I kept thinking I heard a bear huffing nearby, then decided my imagination was working overtime. There was no well water at the campground and we were nearly out of drinking water, so the rain came in handy. We collected plenty in our foldable camp sink. We showed some Australian campers now to store their food in the back of the trash bins -- sort of like a bear bin. Unfortunately, our trash bin had a gap in the back of it just large enough for a little squirrel to squeeze into and, of course, one got it and shredded one of our coolers and got all the way into our dried blueberries. Next time we will make sure there are no gaps. It finally quit raining around 5:00 p.m. so we will get a good night's rest and head out for Beaver Creek, Yukon first thing in the morning.