Aspen

You can easily trigger a small slab avalanche on wind-loaded slopes facing the eastern half of the compass. Although most of these will be small they can take you for a dangerous ride in consequential terrain. Identify and avoid steep, wind-loaded terrain. Some clear signs that you are on a wind-loaded slope are cracking in the snow around your feet, a hard, hollow sound to the snow, and fresh cornice growth along ridgelines above the slope.

You might be able to trigger a larger avalanche on slopes facing the northern half of the compass that didn't avalanche during the last storm Thanksgiving week. To reduce your chances of triggering a larger and more dangerous avalanche, stick to smooth, planar slopes that are consistently more than three to four feet deep.