Trail runner Harry Marshall recently went on a “bear hunt” in the form of a 6-kilometer run in Whistler, Canada. He challenged his online community to guess how many bears he’d spot during the run. Shockingly, he spotted nine. As a bonus, he also ran past a big pile of bear poo, which is not that shocking, considering how many bears were out and about that day.

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“Never seen this many bears so close together in my life!!!” Marshall wrote in an Instagram post sharing the video. “Crazy to say I saw all these bears in just one 6km loop?!”

Apparently, though this seems pretty abnormal to most of us, it’s really not, if you’re from the area.

“I saw 8 in the same spot a month ago,” wrote one person in the comments section.

Watch clips from Marshall’s 6k “bear hunt” trail run below (or see it here).

Header stock image by Javier Zayas Photography/Getty Images

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