Front Range

Cooler temperatures will help the snowpack recover from the heat of the last few days. However, it's a slow recovery, so you still need to be careful in steep and rocky areas where the snowpack is not supportable. If you are falling through a wet snowpack or hear collapsing sounds, retreat to lower-angle slopes or the trailhead. To recreate safely you'll need to find a thick, supportable melt-freeze crust with only the top inch or two softening in the sun.

Although Wet Slab avalanches are unlikely, especially with cooler weather, these avalanches can be as dangerous as dry Persistent Slab avalanches in mid-winter. On Saturday, a skier was caught and injured in one of these avalanches in the Tenmile Range on a west-facing near treeline slope.