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Avalanche

Crested Butte Avalanche Center · Jan 25, 2018 · Gunnison

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Partly sunny

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Thin and sketchy

Avalanche

R2 d2 approx 70' wide crown about 2ft deep slid in a path I've heard called iron curtain on the lookers left side of the north facing bowl above Pittsburgh. Probably remote triggered by our party of four out in the flats a good 100 yards away from the slope. I've never seen a remote trigger that far away but we had a big whoomph and a couple seconds later the slope slid. Bare rock was visible in the start zone. Nobody was caught - everyone in the area was far enough from the bottom of the slope.