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Riding quality was:

Amazing

Snow conditions were:

• Deep powder

We rode:

• Dense trees
• Mellow slopes

We stayed away from:

• Alpine slopes
• Convex slopes
• Steep slopes

The day was:

• Cloudy
• Stormy

Avalanche conditions

• Slab avalanches today or yesterday.
• 30cm + of new snow, or significant drifting, or rain in the last 48 hours.

We went up to Ecstasy from the glory parking lot this morning, deep conditions breaking trail. Got windy and slabby around the evening ridge traverse, decided to took a mellow line in the tree from the ridge avoiding any open slopes. First skier remote triggered an avalanche from approximately 10m away while traversing to the trees we were targeting. The entire bottom of the face went down into the flat aera of the bowl. Crown was 60cm up to a meter, approximately 200-250m large and run for at least 400m. Probably a size 2 to 2.5. Looked like a storm slab that slipped on the January 3rd crust.

We managed to get down into the bowl and skied the tight trees back down to the car. Conditions are amazing in the trees right now but be careful higher up , this wind / storm slabs are getting really big and reactive.