Avalanche: Porter Fork

Porter Fork to the sadlle west of Raymond Started out snowing but began to clear up. Almost no wind and temps around 30. Almost every ski cut I did produced results I skied one north facing shot which broke 50-70 feet about 12" deep and ran about 200 ft. I then moved to west facing thinking it would be safer. On my last run I skied a fairly wide open shot maybe 35 degrees. It broke at least 300 feet 12-18 inches deep and ran 250 to 300 vertical. I tried to bail out right away but was caught close to the trees and rode maybe 50 vertical . I was never close to completely buried and got out myself but lost both poles. The avalanche was a soft slab that ran on surface hoare which was on top of a hard bed surface. I had the feeling that anything approaching 35 degrees that was even the slightest bit in the open would go. I think you guys were right about "considerable" but it was like almost everything I was doing was producing some kind of result.