Last week, two of my friends and I embarked on an adventure into the wilderness beginning from the Dave Thompson Highway, down White Rabbit creek and into the northern reaches of Banff National Park. Our first night of camping was on White Rabbit Creek, about a 20km hike in from the highway. We found a good spot on a gravel sandbar in the middle of the stream. When we woke up we found that we had been checked out by a rather large black bear in the middle of the night. This print was less than 10 metres from the tent. Funnily enough, all of us felt comforted by this fact; the bear didn't find us that interesting and moved on without bothering us. Of course, it's kind of an odd feeling finding a footprint like this really close to one's tent. We were pretty diligent with the bear calls..
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