The areas with the most uncertainty, and therefore the highest level of concern for me are areas that have a generally substantial snowpack but had still been showing signs of propagation before this storm. These slopes will hold more water weight before they avalanche much wider and deeper. These will be unsurvivable avalanches. The uncertainty lies in the overall snowfall, water totals, and how quickly we overload the snowpack. While it doesn't seem like this first system was enough to overload the faceted grains, and for new snow and wind-drifted snow avalanches to begin stepping down deeper into this layer - in the coming days we will continue to add more snow and more wind. As we continue to add these two large stressors to the snowpack, we do know that the likelihood of tipping the scales and beginning to see large avalanches on the persistent grains again only continues to increase.

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