This avalanche was the result of all the wind drifted snow from Dec 12th. This avalanche was quite wide but it gobbled itself up only part way down the track. This leads me to believe that it only involved parts of the cornice and drifts right below the ridgeline. My guess is that it did not break into old sugary snow near the ground. There is not very much sugar snow near the ground present on east facing slopes. That said, I marked a small fracture in the photo below that is on a more northerly facing slope. This little pocket may have broke into old sugar snow near the ground since it is more northeast facing and would have some of that old sugar snow present.