Avalanche: Patsy Marly

We were getting collapsing and cracking on the walk up the Patsey Marley ridge. Storm snow slabs were popping out on test slopes (first photo). We skied the west face of Patsey Marley below the microwave tower back into Alta. About half way down we put in a ski cut on top of the steep rollover. Based on what we'd seen with our test slopes we figured it would probably go. The slab consisted of new snow only, didn't run with too much energy, and was completely manageable. Poor vis made for a poor photo. We did call Alta Central, as the sun had peeked out by the time we got back to the car and you could see the slide from the parking lot.