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Significant windloading.

Avalanche

Triggered a D2 windslab avalanche on one of the Stairway Chutes. It was a west aspect that was being actively wind loaded. Depth was about 6''-10''. It was just the freshly windloaded snow that went, nothing stepped down. Ran about 3/4ths of the chute length. I was basically at the top of the chute and it went below my board as I did a ski cut. Also triggered a smaller wind slab on a loaded feature in the rolly poly stuff in the lowers on the way to small creek.