Avalanche: Chugach State Park

Parked at Rabbit Creek Trailhead and headed up the main Peak 3 gulley. It was gorgeous blue skies and in the mid 20’s. There was a fresh layer of 4-6″ of low density snow on top of an edgeable crust. There were 2 existing tracks on lookers left, off of Peak 3. Once I reached the ridge line there was a bit of wind (it had filled in the previous tracks), and a couple of large wind lips were present. I chose a line to lookers right of the previous lines, and wished I’d paid more attention to the active wind loading, as 2 turns in, a slab let loose and took for a ride. This was an excellent reminder that even on Peak 3 slides happen and even if other people have skied a close by line, slides can still happen.