I honestly don't think the new snow we've received is going to pose much avalanche threat. It's been all "right side up" with no density inversions. We've had very little wind. These two factors are generally what make new snow unstable. That said, as always with new snow, you go out treating it guilty until you find signs that it's innocent.

Generally, if you do this over a good sized area and you're not seeing any of these red flags, the new snow is stable.

The old weak layers buried deep in the snowpack are the wild card. I believe we may have finally turned the corner where these layers aren't posing a huge threat anymore. Last week's very warm temperatures melted and settled the snowpack quite a bit. It is frozen up hard under the new snow. This has made it so that it is fairly unlikely that a person can affect those deep weak layers at this time. That said, I'm still uneasy about them and you won't find me in really steep terrain like what I would normally be riding at this time of the season in most years.