With no shortage of low density snow available to blow around, expect to find both old and newly formed wind drifts on the leeward side of ridges and around terrain features like chutes and gullies. And remember... the snowpack is still trying to adjust to several weeks worth of storm snow and there's an outside chance avalanches will break deeper and wider than you might expect, perhaps failing on a weaker layer or density inversion, now buried deeply in our snowpack. Now, here's where the rubber hits the road... once triggered, todays avalanches can easily boss you around. The good news is... there's plenty of terrain you can ride today and not have any issues. In fact, you can have a great day of riding by avoiding steep, wind drifted terrain and by steering clear of fat and rounded pieces of snow or slopes that sound hollow like a drum. Done, done, and done :)

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