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Spotting Potential Avalanches

If you can identify the site of a recent or potential avalanche, you will decrease your chances of being caught in an extremely dangerous situation.

How to spot a potential avalanche:

Steps:

1. Check the amount of recent snowfall. Heavy amounts of new snow increase the likelihood of an avalanche.

2. Pay attention to radical changes in temperature that may cause snow to melt, become heavier or change consistency. Layers of snow will settle and fracture where there is a major difference in consistency.

3. Stay away from steep slopes, where gravity will have a greater effect on the new snow.

4. Keep an eye out for fractures in the snow along the face of the slope.

5. Look in the chutes, gullies and at the bottom of steep slopes for avalanche debris. You will see a marked difference in the snow - it looks like cottage cheese or boulders

6. Watch the snow around you as you ski. If it comes loose and sloughs down the hill with you, then you are at risk of getting caught up in it.





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