Valemount

We flew into the area to camp for a few days. There was a fairly large storm in the preceding days that was warm and windy but ended cold. The first day we spent most of the day setting up camp, in the late afternoon, we decided to go for a ski and head up a ridge to the south of camp. We dug a pit on an E aspect at 1850M, and there was 4 layers in the upper 100cm that produced easy/moderate results with SP characteristics. Needless to say we were sticking to very conservative terrain. We made it on to the ridge, and decided to ski down along the ridge to some mellow terrain. We took a conservative line between the cornice and the avalanche slope on our skiers right. As we got off the steep part of the slope, one of the members in the group skied ahead to the low point in the ridge. Here they remote triggered the lower part of the slide (see the photos), once this started sliding, it cut the support off the upper slope and it that started sliding. No one in the group was in danger but it all gave as a pretty good scare. The avalanche ran quick fast and full path. We spent the next couple of days sticking to tight or mellow trees with no other incidents. This was a hard 1F slab about 1 meter deep on facets.