DAY 9, June 22,2010

Cal woke up at 1:30 a.m. to the sound of something rattling the trash bins. I woke just as he was getting out of the tent and saying "there is a great big bear out there!!!" He grabbed the camera and I grabbed the bear spray and we both watched as the bear saw Cal and moved on. He was within 12 feet of us before he decided to try smelling the Australians' tent. I don't think they even woke up -- sure glad they took our advice and moved their food out of their tent. Needless to say, we were done sleeping for the night, so we slowly and cautiously packed up and finally rode out of camp at 3:30 a.m. Before 4:30 we saw another large grizzly eating flowers along side the road. We had a frigid 39 degree ride and never took the coats off till we arrived in Beaver Creek. We are now at the Beaver Creek RV Park with lots of people and noise around, so maybe no bears tonight. We need some sleep -- maybe a nap after we get this blog updated. We got here just before the 70% chance of rain hit. So I guess it was good that we left so early. We are doing laundry and showers and plan to hang out here again tomorrow so we can see the Rendezvous Dinner Theatre -- got reservations for tomorrow night. No sense in moving on yet -- forecast is for more rain tomorrow.