Sustained strong southerly winds have been blowing and drifting snow for the past several days, and human triggered wind slab avalanches are likely on steep, wind drifted slopes. At upper elevations, you may find wind slabs on all sides of the compass on the leeward signs of terrain features. Deeper drifts will be found on slopes facing NW-NE-E. Avoid, steep, wind drifted terrain.

The new snow doesn't appear to have caused any natural avalanches down to our buried persistent weak layers, but snow pits and stability tests conclude that they are very much alive and well. Our primary layer of concern is the early December snow that has turned into weak, sugary facets on top of the October crust. There is also a buried layer of facets that existed near the surface before Sunday's storm. With 21" of new snow, and almost 2" of water weight since then, I'm going to assume these layers are guilty until proven innocent. This means assuming that deep and dangerous, human triggered avalanches are likely, primarily on steep slopes at mid and upper elevations that face NW-N-E.