Northern San Juan

Avalanche

After slope cutting route and stomping around, we started descending into a n. Facing tree alley in the Nevada gulch area, First two skiers made it to safe zone(one at a time) third skier made two turns, a decent sized pocket ripped out, crowning up to 3 feet. Skier 3 was carried 30 feet, grabbed on to a small tree, and was able to arrest behind and out of the slide. Slide ran an estimated 600-800 feet, we figured it to be somewhere near the R2D1.5 category. No one was injured