Watch three bears at Northstar ski resort run across slopes
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- Three bears—mother and two cubs—ran across Northstar’s Woodcutter ski trail.
- Videos showed bears running beneath a ski lift and across a slope.
- Experts called the midwinter sighting very rare amid a massive Tahoe snowstorm.
Three bears at Northstar California Resort in Truckee ran beneath a ski lift and across a slope, startling skiers and riders making their way down the run.
Multiple social media videos showed the mama bear and her two cubs running across the Woodcutter trail.
“It is very rare to see bears out of the den in such snow in mid-winter,” Chris Servheen, who worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, told Outside.
The spectacle came as Lake Tahoe area ski resorts saw a massive snowstorm drop 40 inches or more of snow on the Sierra landscape.
This story was originally published February 19, 2026 at 7:05 PM.
David Caraccio
The Sacramento Bee