After our first skier dropped over the central convexity, he triggered a slough that quickly grew into a pretty large point release. We got word to him immediately on the radio and he exited to the slightly lower angle terrain skier's right of the convexity. Our second skier skied a little right of the convexity, and didn't trigger. I then dropped in close to skier no 2's tracks and triggered another decent point release a bit smaller than skier no 1's. The radios were central in helping each other exit the paths before the slides could catch up. No one was caught or carried. This all occurred at 9am, ambient temperatures were cold with a good refreeze the night before, overall concern was low until we noticed dense wind drifted snow by our approach ridge. Upon reflection, we feel that heuristic traps played a big role in us "not listening to ourselves" by continuing to the convexity, ignoring the dense new drifted snow (about 8-9") despite acknowledging it out loud, and assigning some expert halo to each other (not speaking up). I have to admit that I was surprised to get that reaction in such cold snow, I think I was just too focused on classic wet loose scenarios. We waited around for about half an hour to make sure a solo elderly skier got down okay, it was our impression that he had just followed us up without much of a plan, and needless to say it was stressful watching him slowly descend adjacent to our lines without knowledge of our slides obscured by the convexity (we tried to direct him skiers right). Undoubtedly that was another heuristic trap, him following us, alone. I would estimate the max angle at 40 degrees by the convexity, mellowing to 35 skier's right. Grateful for the learning experience with friends on a slope with exits and minimal terrain traps, would've definitely been bad in a couloir. Radios really were a huge element in keeping each other out of harms way.

We skied the east facing lines known as the Divide Chutes, on a sub peak of Hassell north of the main peak.