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Haha! Fuck that.
The photo up there is actually from whistler. I'll try and dig up the article but the Tl;dr is that it charged at a couple's dog and they waved their arms in the air to make it back up. It follows them for a bit and then two mountain bikers with their dog running ahead startled it up a tree.
As you say, the General wisdom seems to be that you may never see one when out hiking but they've certainly seen you.
Worst thing is to run away, they go in to ball-of-string mode and just can't help themselves. They won't mess with a fully grown human that stares them down, usually.
One recently stole a Koala bear from L.A zoo.
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@Brameses
When I lived in whistler, walking through the few hundred metres of forest path to get to my front door was the scariest thing I have ever done. Worse in the summer when the bears were there too.
My canadian housemate mentioned that they are probably always around and pretty much if they allow you to see them, they have already decided you might be next. when my cat is in silly mode and digs her claws in it's fucking painful, cannot even imagine trying to escape one of those.
Don't think I wore earphones outside for an entire year.