Getting boring out there, so tested stability with some cornice drops.  First, we had good visibility, and could see no one was below, or anywhere in site for that matter.  Rather empty backcountry these days. Video is one of two avalanches we triggered by cutting off cornices with a knotted cord.  Both slides seemed to run slowly, gouging and entraining snow as they went.  Seemed like they might have broken out more snow going over the second break over.  Debris looked deep.  Second slide was slightly wider, up to 30' wide.

Confirmed for me that steep, northeasterly facing slopes can still be triggered by a person hitting the wrong spot - and it would probably be slightly off the ridge line so it could break out above you, on a steeper break over, not every slope, and not necessarily obviously wind loaded.

Looking at the second crown - weak layer...(drum roll)...facets!  Slides were soft slabs, except where they pulled back into the hard wind drift along the ridge line.