The Agnew Family aboard the "Dog House"

Wow, another beautiful day and 27C to boot. The day started with breakfast at the picnic table overlooking the harbour. Herons, an eagle and crows were our entertainment. Zaph, Ed and I decided that it would be a great day for a hike and headed out to the Mt. Riley trail head..The trail to the summit (1760 feet) is 2.8 miles from the parking lot — shouldn’t be too hard of a hike. And it wasn’t. After an hour and forty-five minutes of hiking we arrived at the summit (there was actually a survey marker that marked the spot). If was a great lookout spot — you could see a full 360 degrees. Zaph was not as impressed with the view and found a shady spot under a bush. The hike down is always easier and was done in an hour and fifteen minutes. Zaph talked us into stopping along the Chilkat inlet so he could have a quick swim to cool down – some dogs want it all. After a crab feast the four of us had at our campsite ($5 for a Dungeness crab seems like a reasonable deal), Ed and I headed out to Chilkoot River to look for bears. When we got to the river there were a lot of people but no bears. Just as Ed and I were about to give up and head home we heard that there was a bear at the lake. Sure enough there was a brown (grizzly) bear in the lake by the shore fishing, and was only 30-40 ft away.
An eagle landing on the shoreline just off from our campsite



an a hundred feet down the shore was this heron (according to our bird book, this is about their northern limit)





The summit of Mt. Riley


From the summit you can see the mixing point of the blue ocean water (on left) and the grey/brown silty water from the mountain rivers that feed into the channel



A late night dinner, this brown bear was busy catching and eating fish, with little concern about the people watching from the parking lot only 30-40 feet away


Haines at night from across the bay