From an email: "Today while skiing the backcountry off of Lone Mountain, I kicked off two slides on the same slope, facing due north. The first slide I kicked off with a ski cut of the top of a chute (unskied this year), the slough and soft wind slab fractured about 10" - 12" in depth and then stepped down to take all layers to the ground with it. The slide ran full course (top to bottom) about 1200'. At the bottom of the chute I again ski cut another wind slab (in an adjacent pocket)which broke about 14" in depth and ran a couple hundred feet. Both were cut intentionally and a good example of the chronic December snow pack still lurking out there." This amazing photo was taken by Kene Sperry, not the reporting party.
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