Skier triggered avalanche in Beehive Basin

From an email:

"Dug a pit at ~9000’ on a NE asaspectgot a ECTP29 at 56cm down, breaking below the new snow and a 12cm knife-hard slslabBroke on small facets (<1mm) in between wind slabs. I marked the trtrigger pointn red. Skinned up a low angle gully up to around 9500’. As I got near the steepest part of the gully (38°), a soft slab slab8” thick propagated 100’ wide and slid 500’ back down to my pit. No one was caught. Contrary to my pit, this ENE aspect slidaspectthe new snow on top of a previous wind slab. wind slab on the bed surfacebed surfacesnow/old snow interface. Found safer skiing down low in the trees where there was less wind loadinwind loading