Your biggest concern today is finding a pocket where the recent winds as well as today's anticipated winds have formed enough of a drift (slab) over the weak snow formed during the recent period of high pressure. Pay attention to any collapsing or "whoomping" you experience. This is the most obvious clue that you've found one of these scattered problem areas. Areas above around 8000 feet on west through north through east facing slopes are the most suspect.

More details on this layering: (not crucial reading)

It's hard to escape a near surface faceting event during periods of high pressure like we just experienced despite the mild temperatures in the mountains. Things would've been much worse though with colder temps during that period. The result is a layer of small grained facets that formed on the surface most pronounced but not limited to thin snowpack areas and lower elevations where temps were colder. The recent rapid warming changed the facets in the lower terrain to a saturated layer of wet snow which will become quite stable as things cool. The southerly winds helped to redistribute and strengthen the weak snow in the higher terrain HOWEVER it also has formed a slab over these facets in some areas. The weakest snow I've been finding is in the shady sheltered terrain but there is no slab there currently. I rate this as a run of the mill faceting event that's not alarming but enough to cause concern and will no doubt catch a few folks off guard. NOTE THAT ANY PERSISTENT BURIED WEAK LAYER DEMANDS RESPECT.

Theses pockets that you might trigger today aren't all that large but enough to pose a threat. If you decide to risk getting into terrain where these are present, keep your consequences low by not being above rocks, trees or terrain traps.

As for the future, today would be a good day to do some sleuthing to find areas where the recently formed facets are not as pronounced as well as finding areas where wind slabs are not overlaying them. That way you have some areas to go riding over the next few days and feel confident that the anticipated new layer of snow is not going to produce a slab avalanche. Spacial variation is the key here and folks with enough avalanche experience to understand that terminology should be the only one's attempting the type of mitigation technique I just described.

Looking further down the road, I'm hopeful that the small grained nature of these facets will play a role in them bonding as they get buried deeper in the snowpack. I'm not anticipating these grains to produce a widespread problem but I certainly expect to hear about a few human triggered avalanches over the next few days. Time will tell. Approach this situation with caution until we see how things are reacting.

With the continued warm temperatures at the lower elevations, a mention of the possibility of wet snow avalanches is in order for those who might be traveling in the low elevations. It is very important to avoid steep terrain traps such as gullies and chutes where wet snow avalanches may funnel in from above you.