Avalanche forecast

Sangre de Cristo

Colorado Avalanche Information Center
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Avalanche danger

Fri
Sat
Alpine
2 · Moderate
Treeline
1 · Low
Below
1 · Low
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Avalanche problems

  • Wind Slabs

    • Alpine
    • Treeline
    • Below treeline
    Likelihood
    Likely
    Size
    1–1.5

Avalanche Summary

You could trigger an avalanche in wind-drifted snow at upper elevations. Avoid deeper areas of drifted snow on easterly slopes below ridgelines or in gullies and couloirs. Wind-drifted snow can look rounded, pillowy, or lens-shaped. Avalanches will be larger in cross-loaded terrain features and in areas that received more than six inches of new snow on Monday. Cracking and collapsing in the new snow are signs of instability and a good indicator to move to wind-sheltered lower-angle slopes.

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