Avalanche: Days Fork

Submitting this because it scared the hell out of our party and is a valuable lesson to others. DON'T SKI ALONE! Our party was moving north from West Bowl in Silver Fork towards Upper Meadow Chutes. A solo skier passed us, we all grouped up above Doug's Drop. The solo skier (name unknown) geared up and took off without telling us where he planned to ski. After we talked as a group, we made our way north again and before dropping into Meadow Chutes, we noticed the solo skier's tracks going northwest into Day's Fork. I looked over the ridge and onto the slope, to find it had ripped to the ground and there was heavy debris piled into trees, with no clear ski tracks exiting the slide area. I began screaming downhill and heard the solo skiers voice say he was OK and not to ski down above him. Scary as hell, could have been a very different story. Heavily treed, northwest slope into Day's Fork between Doug's Drop and Upper Meadow Chutes.