The night was extremely cold, well below freezing. By far the coldest night we had experienced. The coldest night I have ever experienced. I had taken all warming precautions (beannie, thermals, gloves and alcohol) and still froze. The amount of steam that came from my mouth after my head popped out from the sleeping bag was astounding. It was even a battle getting the toothpaste out of the tube. You get my drift IT WAS COLD : ) The morning was taken up by doing the e-mail ritual, buying a new fleece to keep me warm and posting some of my souvenirs and useless jacket home. Chowed down into some KFC before going off to our next hike. We were driving up to Moose lake.
On the way we sore a couple of traffic jams. The first was a heard of mountain sheep on the road, then some big horn sheep. Then we hit the jackpot. A BEAR. Better than that 3 bears. A mother and two cubs about 10 meters off the road on the other side of a crash barrier. Out we jumped along with 40 other people and click, click, click. I thought Jo's camera was about to start to glow. We were all happy that we had got some great bear photos and lived to tell the tale.
We continued on our way to do a hike up to moose lake. There was thermometer at the trail head. It was 13:00 and was 5°. I told you it was cold. Again we ended up walking through snow as we walked past Moose lake and then on to Malign Lake (although we are no experts we saw what looked like moose and bear footprints in the mud, but alas we did not see any). We sat around in the sun and enjoyed the priceless view. We drove back to the campground and saw the bears again and got some better photos. More grog from the liquor shop, (had a great selection of Aussie wines) dinner and the usual routine of a defrosting fire. 
The unlimited supply of wood and Werni's wood chopping skills with a screwdriver ensured good fires were a norm while in Jasper.
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