December 4, 2016, Snoqualmie Mountain

Similar to other TRs from today, it was deep and light out there.  We were a little slow getting started, so had the luxury of following a very nice skin track all the way to treeline and beyond.  Accidentally traversed a little too far skier's right on the first lap and got on a 35-38 degree slope, and ended up triggering a D1-ish storm slab avalanche.  My photo isn't very good, but the slide is probably 25-30' wide, and the crown 8" deep.  Runout was probably 150', although not much snow ended up being entrained.



Below is the best shot I have of the slope that slid, before the slide.



So, we stuck to ~30 degree slope skier's left, and did three more amazing laps with no instabilities.  Of course I lost my goggles for these, but at the end of the day they turned up in the goggle pocket of my pack, of all places.