Seeing one would be cool.
From a distance.
I've seen them many times. The closest was more than 30 years ago in the Bowron-Hagen valley East of Prince George BC. I was tree planting my way up a side hill, came to a false summit with a small dip before the actual summit. Coming over the summit was a grizzly about the size of a Percheron draft horse. He looked at me and I looked at him, then he began swaying his head back and forth in what I interpreted as a not terribly friendly gesture. There are two theories when tree planting. One is that you leave your food back down at the cache and the bear will go there and you won't see him. The other is to bring it with you and leave it for him to distract him. I did the latter. I set my lunch on the top of a stump and backed down the hill a bit. As soon as he was out of sight I ran down the hill as fast as I've ever moved in my life. Now the hill had a lot of stumps and logs across it so eventually I was taking 20' strides from stump to log all of the way down. I got to the bottom, climbed into the bus we used as a crummy and sat there with the rifle for the remainder of the day. It was a terrible contract with poor money to be made anyway. On the same job a grizzly came in to camp and tore up the cook tent.
The last time I saw one was while moose hunting up near Pink Mountain BC. We were driving around in a Geo Tracker 4x4 with the doors off and between us and a fire pond we saw what we thought was a large grizzly. As we got closer he retreated into the pond and swam across. He got out on the far side and I swear he was 1/3 the size with his fur matted down from the water. He shook and he was big again. I think he was a younger bear, probably a 3 year old. When he fills in with muscle and fat he's going to be a big'un.
