Here's the account reported from the party involved. THANK YOU!!
"Skier A and skier B skinned up flagstaff to access Days fork. There were two ski tracks dropping into Days fork via the ENE aspect in a slighty treed area and a skin track in the same area coming back up out of Days fork. Skier A dropped first staying in the same area as the two tracks and the skin track. Skier B dropped the same area. Both skiers then skinned back up the existing skin track. About 30 feet from the ridgeline skier B decided to dig a pit so skier A made his way up towards the ridge to a safe spot. Skier B then traversed out from the skin track and onto slightly steeper slope to dig a pit. Skier B had enough time to take his skis off and get his shovel and saw out before a 2.5' slab broke about 20 feet above him and propagated 150' to the south. Skier B struggled to run up the slab and get out but was not able to escape. Skier B took a ride to the bottom of the slope. Luckily ending up on top and uninjured. Skier A then dropped to skier B to assist in locating gear, able to find everything except shovel, saw and skis."
The avalanche took out the climbing track and all the ski tracks.
Jake stumbled onto the avalanche shortly after and saw the tracks at the bottom which came out of the debris and then their original climbing track back in. He was unable to see where they exited the the crown at the top of the slope and feared it had avalanched on them as they were ascending, burying both of them. WBR and WPG were quickly put into action and initiated a search. After putting people on the debris and doing a recco & beacon sweep, no signals were found and it was determined that someone had boot hiked back up the slide path.
If you trigger an avalanche like this, PLEASE contact Alta Central (801-742-2033) so that time and money are not wasted in needless searches as well as putting rescuers in difficult situations for no reason.
Last, this slide path is statistically one of the most active in our region with countless close calls. It has become common that a climbing track is put in the avalanche path. This is an unsafe practice for obvious reasons.
From Jake's view: "Was extremely hard to tell exactly what had happened from the ridge, but adjacent paths had me extremely reluctant to jump into the slope. A number of phone calls to various agencies quickly confirmed no one knew about this slide. I then activated WBR through Alta Dispatch. The slide is a repeater, but interestingly the dirt layer is present in the crown, leading me to believe the slide pulled out hangfire from the previous avalanche triggered by Drew and Kow last week. Pleasantly surprised to get the whole story on this, the bed surface was mostly rock and ground and the crown pulled onto the ridge in a few spots. A few more pics below."
Jake is correct, crown face was low from when Hardesty and I triggered it leaving lot's of hang fire.
Photos: Hutchinson