Front Range

Be careful anywhere you find more than about ten inches of drifted snow. Look for and avoid rounded pillows of snow that may crack and slide under your weight. You are most likely to find dangerous drifts just below ridgelines or in cross-loaded gullies. Cracking in the surface snow is an indication to move to low-angle or wind-sheltered terrain.

When the sun shows its face tomorrow, loose snow will sluff off of steep, sunny slopes. Avoid traveling on or lingering underneath steep slopes with wet snow. Rocky, lower elevation sunny slopes are the most likely place you'll see wet surface snow. Fan-like point releases, rollerballs, and mushy surface snow are signs that it is wet.