Gunnison

The current early season conditions are more dangerous than you might expect for November. You can easily trigger a large and dangerous avalanche, and you can trigger them from below a slope or from a distance. You also might be the third or fourth person to travel on a slope before triggering an avalanche. To reduce your chances of triggering a potentially deadly avalanche avoid traveling on or underneath steep slopes that face northwest through north to southeast, especially near and above the treeline. Safer travel options exist on south, southwest, and west-facing slopes or by sticking to slopes less than about 30 degrees without any similarly steep slopes overhead.