I narrowly avoided this avalache while descending a very minor peak in the East of Switzerland (Il Jalet). I'd stopped to look back at where I'd been and while admiring my deep tracks in the snow, an avalanche released from high above and passed about 20 m from where I was standing. It was fairly small, but given the waist deep snow it would have been enough to bury me.
I'd spent all day being hyper-alert for avalaches but thought I was safe on this slope. The terrain was very undulating with combined concave and convex slopes and broken up with trees and rock outcrops. The snow was very deep and soft, but not stratified into layers. It reminds me of La Riondaz, near Leysin, where Dougal Haston was killed by an avalanche. Both La Riondaz and Il Jalet are such a benign and minor looking mountains it's easy to get complacent
