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The sign in the background says, "Coexisting with the brown bear". In case you hadn't gathered, this path was not officially open for the season yet, so we were officically at risk of meeting bears. The solution: find something to make a noise so they would know we were coming and would have time to move away. "No surprises" is the key. Lilac asked whether banging these two sticks together would do the job; but in the end we settled for talking frequently and loudly, just like regular Hong Kong tourists.