Avalanche: Two Dogs

You know how they say cornices break back farther than you expect? Well...it did. We knew things were slabby and corniced but I thought I was far enough back from the codec as we skied over from Flagstaff summit to ski Two Dogs. The cornice broke and I "sent" the 10-15 foot drop. Stayed on top as the cornice gouged its way all the way to the flats, taking some refrigerator-sized debris with it.

I was 3-5 feet away from the edge when the cornice broke. I wasn't looking over the edge or otherwise trying to get close. It broke much farther in than expected.

Worth noting that while it broke deep on the ridge, taking massive slabs of snow with it, the slide didn't really entrain any snow with it as it went.

We skied a few laps on Two Dogs and nothing there even sloughed. It was the cornice that was the problem today.