Some of the higher avalanche terrain has snow coverage that will support large avalanches if and when we receive a significant snow load. Gold Basin still has 65 cm of snow on the ground...almost no settlement has occurred in over 2 weeks. This will definitely be a contributory factor (15% or less) to the formation of slab avalanche conditions. Over 90% of the snow I travelled through today were facets. Very weak non cohesive snow. The current snow on the ground (where present) will be a weak interface with any new snow amounts.