Maybe that's on the site too. He has a cool site and I don't think he'd intentionally publish incorrect information. Just reading the incident reports over the past years it seems that folk are getting hit by avy's before they even get to the steeper or huckable terrain. They get caught on the way. Kinda like they are doing a high traverse to some distant untracked when chaos breaks out, totally unaware of slope angles.
Angles are deceptive even to a trained eye.
Why can't the ski areas regulate the folks leaving the ski area in some way. Granted, he ducked the rope, but it is common to do so to reach the spock chutes. My bad, as i always duck there, and I guess I just figured there was a gate since I have done it so often. Hey DP - lay off brother. That was between two ski runs in a chute in the trees.