According to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center, \u201cnumerous large natural avalanches have occurred, and human-triggered avalanches continue to be very likely on steep slopes.\u201d<\/p>\n
On its website, the agency recommends avoiding backcountry travel until the danger subsides.<\/p>\n
Large snowfall in a short time span can push snowpack to a breaking point. The avalanche center reports that on slopes 30 degrees or steeper, the likelihood of triggering an avalanche is high.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo need to beat around the bush,\u201d Jeff Davis posted early Tuesday morning. \u201cVery dangerous avalanche conditions exist in the San Juan Mountains. This storm has already brought a lot of snow and strong winds to the forecast area and is expected to continue into Wednesday.\u201d<\/p>\n
The center\u2019s avalanche forecaster, Mark Gober, said crews began Tuesday mitigating areas north of Silverton toward Red Mountain Pass, which has been closed since Sunday evening.<\/p>\n
On Monday, crews worked on Molas and Coal Bank passes, yielding 24 avalanches from 37 deployed explosive rounds, Gober said.<\/p>\n
The National Weather Service is reporting no new significant accumulations for the rest of the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
According to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center, \u201cnumerous large natural avalanches have occurred, and human-triggered avalanches continue to be very likely on steep slopes.\u201d On its website, the agency recommends avoiding backcountry travel until the danger subsides. Large snowfall in a short time span can push snowpack to a breaking point. The avalanche center reports […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[1792,414,88],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-106874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-snow-sports","tag-weather","tag-weather-news"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106874"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=106874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}