I tried to self arrest. Every time I got my feet below me and tried to dig in the skis would stop and the rest of me would keep going end over end. Then the skis came off. Lather, rinse, repeat, with boots. Finally came to rest in avalanche debris.
Were you going fast when you fell?
That's what I worried would happen to me! I tried to hug the mountain, once I got my feet downhill. At some point there was a movement that threw one of my skis off (I think it was when I was rotating to get my feet downhill), which I was actually happy about because I wanted to use the boot to self-arrest.