Remote trigger

<p>We had plans to travel up to the Taiya area today and first saw a large avalanche perhaps 12-24 hours old that came down out of the big kahuna area. Continuing up to the notch, while traveling in low angle terrain (less than 20°) we remote triggered a large avalanche on a slope 200m away (this is very far) in a sheltered area where new snow had built an 80 cm slab over some buried surface hoar (feathery crystals). We changed our plans and decided to give large north and north east aspects a wide berth especially in areas that looked loaded up with new snow by the wind.</p>

Terrain Ridden

Alpine slopes, Mellow slopes.

Terrain Avoided

Convex slopes, Steep slopes.

Avalanche Conditions

Slab avalanches today or yesterday.

Snow Conditions

Crusty, Hard, Heavy, Wind affected.

Weather Conditions

Sunny, Warm.