Warm wet weather creates extreme avalanche danger in the Sangre de Cristos It is not all that normal for there to be rain during the month of March here in the Wet Mountain Valley, but as the old saying goes in Colorado, if you do not like the weather, just wait five minutes. However, it might be prudent to delay this week’s hiking trip into the Sangre de Cristo Mountains because this warm storm system is locked on the mountains and is predicted to dump several feet of heavy wet snow. This wet snow will fall on top of lighter early winter snowpack plus high winds will make it easy to trigger avalanches above and below the treeline. Naturally occurring avalanches are expected to take…
