Trail Camera Captures Bigfoot Carrying Lost Skier Through Storm
Posted Thursday, July 16, 2026
By Squatchable.com staff
Okay, so I need to tell you about this footage I just came across because I am still processing what I watched. A trail camera in the Kootenays of British Columbia allegedly captured something that is going to give you chills, and I mean the good kind.
The video comes from a woman named Laurel Vance, who has spent over a decade running a wildlife monitoring program through the Selkirk Wilderness Society. She is not someone who jumps to conclusions. She is a scientist. She studies animals, places cameras in remote locations, and writes reports that end up in provincial wildlife offices and academic journals. When she says she has footage of something that, according to everything she was trained to believe, should not exist, that carries weight.
Here is the story. On February 14th, her husband Danny, a 57-year-old backcountry skier with 38 years of experience, headed out to Whitewater Ski Resort near Nelson, British Columbia. He was planning to ski a route called Powder Keg Bowl, which exits the resort boundary through a gate on the east side of the summit chair. He had read the avalanche forecast that morning, checked his gear, and made the call that conditions were manageable. He was experienced, properly equipped, and knew the terrain.
Then a storm moved in faster than any weather model predicted. Within 90 minutes of exiting the resort boundary, Danny was completely lost in a whiteout so total he could not distinguish the ground from the sky. His Garmin inReach satellite communicator was pinging his location, and Laurel could see he was well above treeline in an open alpine zone, which was not where he planned to be. At 1:07 PM, he sent a message: "Lost. Storm bad. Staying put."
That was the right call in those conditions. Moving in zero visibility is how people walk off cliffs or trigger avalanches. Danny knew that. He sheltered in place and waited.
What happened next is what makes this footage so extraordinary. Laurel went looking for answers on her trail cameras afterward, and what she found has apparently left her speechless. She describes watching the footage hundreds of times, knowing every frame, every timestamp. The video allegedly shows something walking out of that blizzard carrying Danny on its back. Something that shielded him through the storm.
Now, I know how that sounds. But consider the context. The Kootenays have a long history of Sasquatch sightings. The dense old-growth Engelmann spruce and subalpine fir forests of the Selkirks are exactly the kind of habitat these beings are reported to favor. The West Arm Provincial Park, which borders the backcountry zones where Danny was skiing, covers about 52,000 hectares of largely untouched wilderness. This is deep, remote terrain where Sasquatch encounters have been reported for generations, long before trail cameras existed.
What makes this footage different, if it is what Laurel describes, is the interaction. This is not a blurry figure in the distance. This is allegedly a Sasquatch carrying an injured or exhausted human through a blizzard. If genuine, this would be among the most significant pieces of evidence ever captured, because it suggests something about the nature of these beings that goes beyond simply existing. It suggests compassion. It suggests intelligence. It suggests they may have been watching us far longer than we have been watching them.
Laurel mentions that the footage is still on her hard drive. She has watched it maybe 200 times. She knows the timestamp in the upper left corner reads February 14th. She knows the way the spruce trees on the left side of the frame shake first before anything else moves. She knows the direction the wind is pushing the snow sideways across the lens. And then what comes through the trees.
I am not going to spoil the details. You need to watch this one for yourself. The video is on YouTube and it is worth every minute of your time. Whether you are a longtime researcher or someone who is just curious, this is the kind of footage that reminds you why this subject matters. Something is out there. And sometimes, apparently, it helps us find our way home.
Go watch it. Seriously. Go watch it now.