Day 5-Great Falls, MT-Rest day-16.07 miles (Circular miles without the trailer)

We took a rest day…not really by choice. Spokewrench was running a low grade fever last night and this morning. He was pretty tired today, so we decided to stay at the hotel another day…even though we can’t get the wireless to work. To be honest, I am not really feeling quite up to par myself. The sore throat has turned into a nose issue and I am a little tired, too.
Well, laundry is done, groceries are purchased, and we have visited the bike shop to take care of the cadence and air pump problems. We have visited the hot tub and the pool several times as a bonus. Actually it was a blessing in disguise as it started raining just a little afternoon and it is still raining at 4:00 p.m., a miserable biking day. I would still like to take a tour around town, though, to look at the falls and a museum or two, but I prefer not to do that in the rain.
The hotel has been a minor disappointment. There has been no connection at the hotel for the past 2 days. It will probably be necessary to update by going to be an internet café down the street from the hotel.
It finally stopped raining around 4:30 so we took off to do some sightseeing. Obviously, this is where Lewis and Clark found the Great Falls of the Missouri. We biked to 2 of the 5 falls they found. These falls have been pretty much tamed as you can see by the pictures. Lewis and Clark recorded that they could see the mist from the falls quite a distance before actually seeing it (see the student question below). As you can see from the pictures, the falls are not big enough now to produce much mist at all. What we did find besides the falls was the River’s Edge Trail; a beautiful 2 lane paved bicycle and hiking trail. We rode about 10 or 12 miles of the trail.

-clarkwheel

Student question: Lewis and Clark could see the mist from the falls about how many miles away before they actually laid eyes on it?