Sawatch

It is getting harder to trigger an avalanche but if you do it will break on a layer of weak snow near the ground and be large enough to bury you. You are most likely to trigger one of these avalanches on steep, unsupported slopes facing the northern half of the compass that did not avalanche during the Thanksgiving week storm.

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