Poked the Bruin

Avalanche date/time

Tuesday, February 3, 2026 at 21:30

Estimated occurrence time of avalanche

Less than 12 hours ago

Number of avalanches in this report

1

The size of avalanche

1.5

Slab thickness

20cm

Slab width

30m

Run length

90m

Avalanche Character

• Wind slab

Trigger type

Skier

Trigger subtype

Remote

Remote trigger distance

70m

Start zone aspect

• NE

Start zone elevation band

• Alpine

Start zone elevation

2,300m

Vegetation cover

Open slope

Headed up with hopes of skiing 8812 bowl. Approaching Bruins met one skier in front of us who had been breaking and had just aborted due to collapses he triggered. We poked forward to make our own decisions and also triggered several significant collapses. We also chose to retreat and not mess with the steeper terrain to enter the ridge.

Toured low angle up into Hospital bowl checking out conditions. Higher found a variety of wind effect, hollow sounds, and continued collapses.

After a descent we worked up to the top of Ursus trees and down into Dispatchers bowl. While on the ridge we did see a couple of groups who had chosen to head up onto Bruins ridge. While traversing low angle terrain in Dispatchers we remote triggered a 1.5 on a NE facing steeper roll we were working around. No one caught.

Weather for the day was warm. Close to 0 up high. Only very light wind on ridges. In and out clouds/fog but other times almost sunny but with a high thin cloud layer holding off the main energy.

Still spooky out there.