Day 6

Finally caught up on emails and finished our blogging.  Wow it was noon before we knew it and we didn't even stop for breakfast.  We packed up in the rain and headed out to the Edgewater for a breakfast of smoked salmon egg benedicts.  Yum...  Can't go wrong with salmon in these parts.  Did a few more emails and headed out for supplies and gas.  Hit the Canadian Superstore.  Looks and feels like a Wal-mart, but they had great food selection.  Gourmet sandwiches and salads to go.  Picked up some wine at the liquor store my advice is if you are headed through Canada and like your wine, bring it with you and lie at the border.  :)  Its 3 pm and we are headed to Tok our next destination.  At least it stopped raining.  We headed out of town surrounded by mountains on both sides of us.  As we approached Haines Junction is becomes even more dramatic.  The mountains are tall and close.  Snow seems tucked away in the crevices and shadows of these big beauties.  We stopped for a photo outside of town and notices a sign that pointed out several peaks that were 15,000 feet tall.  Too cloudy to see them.  But we caught glimpses later in the trip.  Every time we stop we are engulfed by bees.  I found out that they are carnivores that are feeding off the carcasses of the dead bugs on our bikes.  They aren't going to go hungry around us that's for sure.  As we head out of Haines Junction we start looking for a campground hopefully on Kluane Lake.  No such luck so we push on.  To the west their are glaciers on the mountains and they are close by.  We finally find a campground on a river, not as beautiful as the others, but nice enough.  The skeeters are really big here and are not intimated by the fire we have lit.  Off to bed early with a good book.  Reading the Big Burn.  Can't put it down.