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chief_scrutter
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.