Long time ski guide Roger Atkins has a wonderfully insightful paper on matching terrain selection to the avalanche conditions. It's called Yin, Yang, and You. A hidden gem in the essay is of the human condition and how we find joy in this world. It's appropriately called The Selection of Desires. Long story short, he argues - and I believe this to be true - that if our only joy is in the steep and the deep, then it's likely we won't last too long. There is joy, too, in low angle powder snow.

The persistent slab problem can be found on nearly all aspects above about 7500' and most pronounced on west to north to southeast facing slopes. All the bull's eye clues to danger are present: avalanches, collapsing, cracking.

There are a few options:

Look for evidence of faceted snow (Trent's video above or the one below.) Avoid being on or beneath steep terrain if you find this weak snow. Remember you can trigger these avalaches down on top of you even from low angle terrain.

Use test slopes to determine sensitivity. Test slopes are steep, representative aspects/elevations pieces of terrain that can reveal a great deal of avalanche information. They should not, however, be used to declare representative slopes safe.

Bottom Line: if you want steep terrain - find aspects and elevations where the old faceted snow does not exist (many south and southwest facing slopes). Otherwise, find joy in the low angle powder snow with nothing steep above.

Gusty west to southwest winds will continue to create sensitive wind drifts in the more open exposed terrain. Once any snow gets moving, it could step down to one of the deeper weak layers, resulting in a much larger avalanche.