Aspen

You can trigger avalanches on many slopes. The most dangerous and largest avalanches will happen on open, wind-drifted slopes that sit directly below ridgetop and face an easterly direction. In sheltered areas, you can trigger avalanches in soft snow that break a couple of feet deep on a weak layer that was buried in early February. We continue to get evidence of these easily triggered slides from areas near Crested Butte and around Aspen. The snowpack is complicated, and the simplest solution is to stick to slopes less than about 30 degrees.