I was skiers right of High Dutch in a safe zone in the flats at the bottom with 2 other people, Scott and Chase, which I regularly ski with. 3 snowboarders were on the skier's left side of High Dutch. 2 at the bottom and one at the top. Scott watched the boarder drop in from the top. He said the boarder made 4 or 5 hard turns before the slab remotely failed. The slab ran fairly slow. Scott and Chase yelled at the 2 boarders at the bottom to get out of the way. With eyes on the potential victims I snapped pictures in the general direction. From my vantage point the snow and cloud engulfed the 2 boarders. The boarders said they were not knocked over. As soon as the cloud disappeared we had eyes on the boarders. The snow had traveled past both of them. Scott was positive no one else was on the slope as he saw the trigger, collapse and shear and quickly scanned the slope for other skiers. I was able to scan but it was a full second after failure. Upon analysis of the pictures there was no evidence of any victims.

Chase's analysis of the slide was that ESE winds from the day before loaded the slope using the island of trees as a snow fence. The thick part of the slab was clearly skiers right while the thin part was skiers left near where the boarder was riding. There were tracks going into the thick part of the slab as well as at least 2 sets going into the thin part of the slab. The slope had been skied by at least 3 people. Also to note there was a pocket within the slope that had already pulled out. This pocket was within the new snow only. With out access to the site after the slide I cannot say if the slope failed on the rain crust about 80cm down or if the slope failed near the ground. The pictures I took clearly show rocks poking through the snow pack suggesting possibly that the slope failed below the rain crust sandwiches but that may just be a local phenomenom.