Second lap after skiing soft fun tree turns off of the NW aspect of Point 10420. Powder fever took over after teeth rattling skiing yesterday. We got greedy, we looked over the north aspect of Lane's Leap below the picnic tree, it looked soft and fun. We asked ourselves, maybe it will be dust on crust and the hazard will be getting an edge. We never stopped to ask ourselves "yeah, but what does the forecast ACTUALLY warn us about?" - Fast running sluff... that's the real hazard. My partner drops in and immediately triggers the top layer of snow sluffing off. It didn't seem like that much sluff, but the smart move would have been to traverse out at that point, instead he made a second turn, and the facets below started running, they ripped his ski off and started dragging him to down fast, heading for the trees below. Fortunately he was able to avoid the trees, but took an uncontrolled ride down 156 vertical feet and 185 linear feet, averaging 38deg and maxing out at 47 degrees. No injuries, no broken or lost equipment, but a very close call, and a wake up for sure. In retrospect, we knew the hazard, and I'd vocalized that it looked steep, I was thinking "steep and unsupported and it could sluff fast" - but I didn't say that out loud.

As PNW skiers, we aren't used to real dry loose hazard, lack of familiarity with these conditions probably contributed to our poor decision making today.