Avalanche: Turnagain

Avalanche was triggered skinning up the final steep section before the first peak. Skinner was carried approximately 50 vertical feet coming to a stop on the ridge. Initial fracture triggered approximately 50 feet above and 75 feet to each side of the skinner. The snow on the more shaded aspect travelled approximately 100' vertical feet into the lower angle terrain of the west facing bowl. The snow on the more southerly aspect propagated to the SW approximately 1000' from the trigger point and travelled to the valley floor with one portion of the debris reaching the creek.

Two experienced ski touring friends out for the day with the mind set of stepping into bigger terrain. There were no obvious signs telling us not to continue with our planned tour. We were aware of the snowpack structure and the possibility of triggering an avalanche but did not expect to make an avalanche of this size.

Lessons:
Persistent slab is inherently difficult to manage and is tricky to deal with.
Terrain choices matter - - we chose an aggressive objective but the ascent of the last pitch was set favoring the less consequential terrain, this ended up in our favor.
Risk acceptance can be higher or lower depending on the partners you go with.
I'm sure there are other lessons, but that's what we have for now.

No rescue needed, skinner self rescued after snow stopped moving.