Hard to trigger, but an entertaining size once it went. Took cornice kicking and 2 ski cuts, popping out on second person, second hard cut, dropped onto bed surface. Photo of deepest spot.

Heavily wind loaded spot, enough weight to overload one of the several weak layers. Pencil hard slab in places. Relatively small considering the whole slope, with a high stauchwall. Seems to be a good preview to what will happen once we get some more snow and weight on these weak layers.

Hard slab debris in foreground, soft debris reached the mid slope trees where the arrow is pointing.

The skier's right flank, less wind loaded. Looking (and feeling with a bare hand) quite carefully, the failure was between 2 very thin crusts, above the November near surface facets. Unable to figure out if there are any sort of faceted grains.

Overall, very impressed with how weak the snow was on north and east between 8,600' and 9,400'. thin crusts, facets, weak layers, pole to the ground sort of stuff everywhere. One decent collapse on ascent.