As we entered Jasper and drove towards Malingne Lake a part of landscape was still recovering from the July 15 2015 Excelsior wildfire.

The dark burnt tree remains covered the mountains and it gave me a whole new definition of the word “hope”

Life goes on

To cheer things up a black bear cub decided to show up in the Medicine lake shore who seemed to be enjoying all the attention from the tourists and the rainbow trouts from the Medicine lake