While new wind drifts are today's most obvious and straight-forward avalanche problem, don't get complacent thinking this is the only avalanche dragon out there. The last reported human triggered deep slab avalanche was on January 27th near Current Creek peak found here it's a great reminder of the sleeping avalanche problem we can't forget. Moderate danger means " Heightened avalanche conditions on specific terrain features. Evaluate snow and terrain carefully; identify features of concern."
Features of concern - are the avalanche paths that generally face the west to north to easterly facing aspect at or above tree line that previously avalanched back in late December. These slide paths that avalanched, had weak faceted (sugary) snow develop due to their shallow nature, now we have added roughly 3-5 feet of stronger snow on top of the weaker snow at the ground.
The problem now, is we can't tell what slopes avalanched back in December because everything has filled back in and they all look the same. My strategy for this is to assume that all slopes approaching 35 degrees in steepness facing the west to north to easterly terrain and above tree line are all suspect for now. It's been 6 days since that last reported slab avalanche from the backcountry found here. I would like to see a little more time go by before we punch the big terrain.