This was a nice little storm for the region and there's plenty of light density snow to blow around. With a spike in wind speeds overnight, I suspect today's drifts will be more widespread and more sensitive to the additional weight of a rider. Found mostly along the leeward side of upper elevation ridges, I wouldn't be too surprised to find a sensitive piece of snow cross-loaded around terrain features like chutes or gullies. Today's shallow wind slabs are a manageable avalanche problem because they break at or below our skis, board, or sled. However, not so manageable is the potential for a fresh wind drift to break into weaker snow, now buried several feet deep in our snowpack. Once triggered, a seemingly manageable wind slab can quickly get out of hand, breaking deeper and wider than you might expect, producing a dangerous slide.
Steep, rocky, upper elevation slopes facing the north half of the compass are in the avalanche bulls-eye today. Given the shallow snowpack conditions right now, an avalanche that breaks to the ground will take you for a season ending, body beating ride through rocks and stumps barely hidden under this thin veil of snow.
Our main man Ted Scroggin submitted this snowpit from Friday. While not quite as reactive as even a few days ago, the snowpack continues to fail on weak snow near the ground, right at the level of Ted's snow saw. His trip report can be found here.