{"id":884990,"date":"2026-09-06T02:02:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T02:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/884990\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T02:02:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T02:02:31","slug":"woman-injured-in-bear-attack-in-whistler-backcountry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/884990\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman injured in bear attack in Whistler backcountry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 2 minutes<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>A woman was taken to hospital on Friday after a bear attack in the backcountry near Whistler.<\/p>\n<p>The B.C. Conservation Officer Service (BCCOS) said a group of three hikers ran into two bears near Conflict Lake in the Callaghan Conservancy around 5 p.m. PT on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The service said one of the bears attacked a woman before disengaging. <\/p>\n<p>Whistler Search and Rescue president Brad Sills said it helped transport conservation officers to the scene, and to evacuate the woman by helicopter.<\/p>\n<p>He said the woman had a severely lacerated leg. B.C. Emergency Health Services said the victim was transported to hospital in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>BCCOS swept the area and killed an adult male black bear at the attack site due to safety concerns, it added.<\/p>\n<p>However, the service said it has not been able to confirm if a black bear or grizzly bear was responsible for the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Sills said the area is known grizzly habitat, and hikers in the area need to take precautions including making plenty of noise. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not enough to call out intermittently when you\u2019re hiking, when you\u2019re in known grizzly bear terrain, you need to be calling out all the time,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>The BCCOS said officers were returning to the site on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>B.C. Parks has closed trail access in the area and is urging people to stay away. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-884990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}