If you love snow sports, sooner or later Jackson Hole and northwest Wyoming are bound to lure you.
Avalanches are intricate and puzzling phenomena.
Not even experts are able to accurately predict them. There are, however, a number of factors that greatly increase avalanche danger. Every person who ventures out during the winter should be aware that leeward slopes accumulate a great deal of wind-deposited snow and may become very unstable. In addition, avalanches are most common on slopes of between 30 and 45 degrees. Storms nearly always increase avalanche danger considerably.