Grand Mesa

This very close call of a snowmobiler in the Leroux Creek drainage on Thursday is a sobering illustrating of the kind of avalanche you can trigger on Saturday.

While natural avalanche activity is mostly over after our last storm winds down, you can still trigger similar avalanches on most steep slopes., Avalanches can break wide across terrain features, they can occur in trees or on steep slope cuts above trails, and you can trigger them from long distances away.

Slopes less than about 30 degrees without steeper overhead terrain offer the safest riding options.