Avalache in Cougar creek east (west line)
Observed Feb 16, 2026, 11:45 a.m. PST · Selkirks
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Avalanche report
- Run length
- 100
- Slab width
- 15
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Avalanche size
- 2
- Slab thickness
- 80
- Trigger sub type
- Accidental
- Start zone aspect
- N
- Vegetation cover
- Sparse trees
- Start zone incline
- 40
- Avalanche character
- Persistent slab
- Number of avalanches
- 1
- Start zone elevation
- 1780
- Runout zone elevation
- 1680
- Start zone elevation band
- Tln
- Avalanche occurrence datetime
- 2026-02-16T19:45:00.000Z
Incident report
- Group size
- 2
- Description
- One member of the group triggered the avalanche under his feets and got caught and was dragged for around 100 meters and hit multiple trees in the way. He break his right feet and injured his knee. He also lost his splitboard, but we were able to recover the parts and reassemble it. He was able to slowly ride the rest of the run by enduring the pain then skin to the highway. We went to the hospital in Golden and are safe back at the hotel. For others, take care in this area or other similar terrain because we also saw many other collapses on the way down, it really unstable in this area.
- Terrain trap
- Gully depression
- Group activity
- Skiing
- Number injured
- 1
- Number involved
- 1
- Number caught only
- 0
- Number fully buried
- 0
- Snow depth trigger point
- Deep
- Terrain shape trigger point
- Convex
- Number partly buried able breathing
- 0
- Number partly buried impaired breathing
- 0