Avalanche danger to increase Saturday as ‘significant storm’ impacts Colorado’s northern mountains

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Avalanche danger to increase Saturday as ‘significant storm’ impacts Colorado’s northern mountains
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'This weekend could be the last shot for dry snow and powder turns for the season, but don't let that opportunity lure you into dangerous terrain,” CAIC officials said. COwx

The threat of increased avalanche danger will impact the Northern Mountains, near and east of the Continental Divide, where a late spring storm is expected to dump one to two feet of snow down into the Foothills.

Conditions from this spring snowstorm will “dramatically change” the snow and avalanche conditions late Friday into Saturday, from north to south across the Northern Mountain region, as the threat transitions from wet to dry avalanches as the day goes on, they said. The danger rises Friday night across the region and to more slopes on any given mountain and skiers and snowboarders can expect to trigger Storm Slab avalanches on many steep slopes, CAIC officials wrote in their snowpack and avalanche discussion.

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