Still a big problem

La qualité du hors-piste était:

Excellente

Les conditions de neige étaient :

• Durcie
• Poudreuse

Nous avons parcouru:

• Pentes alpines
• Pentes de faible inclinaison
• Forêt dégagée

Nous sommes restés à l'écart de:

• Pentes convexes
• Pentes raides

La journée était:

• Nuageuse
• Brumeuse
• Venteuse

As a group of 5 skiers, we approached a large bowl feature at 1800m, NNE aspect, and we positioned ourselves on a 15 degree shoulder, next to a steep roll and above a healthy stand of trees. While we were looking at the feature, the slope settled under our feet and a fracture propagated around the entire bowl. Crown height was between 1 to 1.5m (maybe as high as 2m), and ran full path. The ground beneath us cracked and shifted but thankfully did not have the slope angle to develop momentum. The bed surface didn’t feel safe to approach due to hangfire but we suspect a crust interface below the March 6 crust, potentially Jan 30, due to a visible crust in the middle of the crown.