A group of four skiers boot packed the Dead Dog Couloir on Torrey's peak, with all four attaining the top of the couloir by approximately 10:30 AM. While preparing to transition from climbing to skiing at the narrow top of the ridge above the couloir, I triggered a wind slab avalanche that broke approximately 24" deep and 50 feet wide at 10:35 AM. The other three were standing on the ridge to skiers left of the avalanche but I was swept up in the avalanche. In an attempt to get to the skiers' left side of the path, I rolled over twice and then used the ice axe that I still held in the self-arrest position from the ascent, to execute a self-arrest approximately 25 feet below the trigger point. The slide continued down the entire couloir, as verified by members of the group that subsequently skied it.

Dead Dog Couloir on Torreys Peak