Went to take a look at South Monitor, haven't been there in a week or two and wanted to see what was up. It looked a lot more filled in than the last time I was there but still was only holding 12 to 20 inches of total snow pack. Went to take a run in the skiers left side of the bowl which is the lowest angle and least rocky portion of the slope. Not really thinking about avalanches which is my own fault, I skipped doing a simple ski cut and just dove in, about 3 or 4 turns in I felt the slope collapse and watched as it dinner plated around me. It fractured about 20 to 30 feet above me and washed by as I was standing there, luckily there wasn't enough snow to knock me off my feet, and I watched it continue down the slope widening out and speeding up as it went it"s course, fairly nice powder cloud and debris pile at the bottom. Crown was about 8 inches at the deepest and the slide was about 100ft at its widest point. Upon investigation of the crown it was clear that the weak layer was a thin layer of facets sandwiched between the dense inch of snow that fell on Monday night and the stout wind/heatcrust that has been there since Thanksgiving. The snow pack set up was large grained facets at the ground then the stout wind/heatcrust from around Thanksgiving about 3 to 4 inches thick a thin layer off small grained facets on top of that capped off by the dense snow from Monday night the dirt layer and the new non wind affected 6 inches of light density snow. once it got running it stepped down through the older crust and ran on the facets at the ground.

Photos: Whole slide from a few angles, a few of the crown, the facets it failed on, the flank where it's obvious that it took the dense inch from Monday night, and I had time to get my camera out and take a few of the slide in motion.