Avalanches within the new snow will be the primary concern today. With the lack of wind, most of these slides should be manageable as shallow, loose snow sluffs. Some natural sluffing may occur off the high, steep, N-NE-E faces where they could gather a significant amount of snow and momentum. For this reason, today is a good day to stay out from under this type of terrain. If winds increase, they will start to drift the new snow into sensitive soft slabs on the lee sides of ridge crests and terrain features. Be alert to areas of drifting snow and signs of instability such as cracking in the snow surface, and avoid steep slopes where this is present.

We are slowly adding incremental doses of weight to persistent weak layers in the snowpack. This is slowly increasing the likelihood for human triggered avalanches 2'-4' deep breaking down into weak, sugary, faceted snow. The danger is most acute in areas of steep, rocky, north facing terrain that has a weak, sugary, underlying snowpack, and I'm going to continue to avoid those areas.