Steamboat & Flat Tops

You can easily trigger an avalanche large enough to injure or kill you on many steep slopes. Before triggering an avalanche, you may not see obvious signs of instability, like cracking or collapsing in the snow. You can trigger an avalanche from far away or in flat areas below steep slopes. Although you can trigger avalanches in many places, wind-drifted steep slopes directly below ridgetop can produce the largest and deadliest avalanches. Give these slopes a wide berth.