We headed into Jasper National Park.  We found the information center and tried to make some plans for the few days.  The weather forecast is for rain Tuesday and Wednesday, but today is clear.  We found a B&B in the town of Jasper.  There are several B&B's here and they are regulated by the park.  We'll camp tonight and we made reservations of Tuesday and Wednesday.  So we established where we were staying the next couple of nights.  We found a hike that was 7.5 km, about 5 miles, near a hot springs.  It was good to get out and hike again after so many days driving in the truck.  We wanted to soak in the hot springs pool, but it was getting late, so we just went back to Snaring Campground to make dinner.  We'll come back tomorrow morning and soak. 

We had dinner at the campground and just as we started cooking, two deer showed up and just stared at us for a minute.  They finally moved on.  We were glad they weren't' t really begging, they were just passing thru, looking for opportunities.  

We were ready to turn in for the night and walked over to the restrooms.  We met some folks who were also traveling.  Trish, from Edmonton, met Ashland and John while traveling in Turkey about a year ago.  Ashland and John have been traveling the world for 18 months now.  They had planned for a year, but just kept going.  We joined them back at their camp for a while and chatted about traveling and where they've been.  They told us of a bear encounter they had just a few nights ago.  They had camped at a pull off with a dumpster and made diner there.  Late that night, a black bear tried to get into their van.  They jumped up and drove away.  We've been careful about not camping around dumpsters or a lot of trash.  And in bear country, we've been cooking at a different location from where we sleep.  And I think we'll keep doing that.