The snowpack is slowly adjusting to all the added weight of the recent storm and we're at a tenuous crossroads with snow stability. As the snow gains strength, today you'll be able to ride plenty of slopes and not trigger any avalanches. As a matter of fact, the snow will feel strong and stable under our skis, board, or sled. Unfortunately, it's these exact type of conditions that allow us to get into steeper, more avalanche prone terrain and get well out onto the slope before triggering a slide. Once triggered, today's avalanches have the potential to break wide and deep, taking out the entire seasons snowpack, producing a very dangerous and possibly unsurvivable slide. It doesn't mean you can't ride. It does mean that you need to match your terrain choices with the avalanche danger and think about the consequences. You can have a blast carving turns in meadows and low angle slopes with no steep terrain above or connected to the slope you're riding.

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This large slide in Upper Weber Canyon was remotely triggered on a heavily wind loaded ENE aspect. 3'-5' deep and 400' wide, the avalanche broke to ground taking out the entire seasons snowpack.

Once initiated, today's shallow slabs can quickly get out of hand, breaking into deeper buried weak layers as they crash down onto the slope below and they'll be packing a punch.