Sawatch

Avalanche

At roughly 2pm we saw a fresh avalanche slide on the east facing slope NTL as we were skiing back to the trailhead. We did not see the avalanche slide. There was no avalanche in the morning as we skinned into the zone. We saw a skin track leading into the upper portion of the slide path. Trees were blocking the bottom of the slide, we could not confirm if there were ski tracks from the bottom. After looking at the slide for about 5 minutes, we saw movement of a person who we thought was a tree. This person skied down the slide path and through the debris. It did not look like the skier was doing an rescue. We waited at the TH until about 4pm when all cars were accounted for, we felt confident no persons were missing.