Southern San Juan

You can easily trigger an avalanche on slopes that face northwest through north to east at higher elevations. In these areas, new snow settled into a cohesive slab that rests on top of old weak snow. While most of these avalanches will be small they can still knock you over and take you for a dangerous ride. At the highest elevation that received more than a foot of snow in the past few days some of these avalanches could grow large enough to bury you. You can find safer travel options by sticking to southerly or west-facing slopes where most of the snow melted before the past few days of snowfall, or you can avoid traveling on or directly underneath slopes steeper than about 30 degrees.