Avalanche: East Bowl

The location was just to the skier's left at the pass to the East Bowl as you enter from Grizzly Gulch. A party of two with one skier descended into a zone of safety. As the second skier start to traverse the top of the slope from his safe zone to a second sub ridge the slope started to crack and released carrying the skier about 20 feet. The slide was moving quite slowly and did not pick up much speed. Did not want to investigate the layers as there was still significant hang fire. But it was evident that the snow released on a rock slab.