I don't think the overnight storm is enough stress to make the walls start caving in, but with the help of yesterday's strong winds, the one-two combo might reveal the somewhat cranky personalities of our problem children, several persistent weak layers of snow, now buried a couple feet from the snow surface. The problem is... the pack feels bomber under our skis, board, or sled. And while we forget about weak layers, the snowpack has an amazing memory. In fact, if you trench down, you'll still find weak, sugary facets beneath the surface, now buried between 1' and 3’ deep and that's the devious culprit behind recent persistent slab avalanches.

The next couple days are critical, so let's keep it tight and avoid terrain where we could trigger a slide that breaks deeper and wider that what we might've bargained for. Think... steep, rocky, shallow... like slopes that have avalanched several times already this winter.