Quick report
Heavy snow, ski lines in more conservative lower angle lines. Chose to ski a line we did not plan to ski. First skier successfully made it down and then chose very poor place to film other skier. Second skier triggered avalanche, and safely skied out of it: lower skier that was filming was unable to ski away and fell facing downhill. Slide buried him up to shoulders after skis got caught on a tree. Immobilized until skier that triggered slide came and dug out buried skier approx 10 minutes later.
Avalanche
- Size
- D2
- Aspect
- N
- Trigger
- AS
- Elevation
- 7700 ft
Chose to ski a line we did not plan to ski. First skier successfully made it down and then chose very poor place to film other skier. Second skier triggered avalanche, and safely skied out of it: lower skier that was filming was unable to ski away and fell facing downhill. Slide buried him up to shoulders after skis got caught on a tree. Immobilized until skier that triggered slide came and dug out buried skier approx 10 minutes later.