
Continued cougar sightings keep parts of Whistler Blackcomb closed
Global News
Multiple trails around Whistler Blackcomb will remain closed Monday after multiple cougar sightings over the weekend. Conservation officers believe these incidents are connected.
Large areas of Whistler Blackcomb will stay closed again on Monday after more cougar encounters over the weekend.
The latest sightings were reported Sunday morning on the Blackcomb side of the Whistler Mountain Bike Park.
Whistler Blackcomb says the Ascent Trail, Blackcomb bike trails, and both the Creekside and Garbanzo Zones will stay closed Monday.
A young family tells Global News they were on a trail just before noon when a woman got caught with a cougar above her and another below.
The family says the woman banged her hiking poles together to scare the big cats off before they arrived.
“My dad had pepper spray on him,” explains 11-year-old Carter.
“And he’s like, ‘yeah it’s a cougar’ and he just kept screaming ‘it’s a cougar, it’s a cougar.'”
Carter and his parents then took the Gondola the rest of the way down.













