While the vast majority of our recent wind drifts have settled and won't be quite as reactive to our additional weight, I bet if you wanted to trigger an avalanche, there's a steep, upper elevation slope with your name on it. And remember... the snowpack is still trying to adjust to several weeks worth of storm snow and there's an outside chance avalanches will break deeper and wider than you might expect, perhaps failing on a weaker layer or density inversion, now buried deeply in our snowpack. Now, here's where the rubber hits the road... once triggered, todays avalanches can easily boss you around. The good news is... there's plenty of terrain you can ride today and not have any issues. In fact, you can have a great day of riding by avoiding steep, wind drifted terrain and by steering clear of fat and rounded pieces of snow or slopes that sound hollow like a drum. Done, done, and done :)

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