Heightened wind slab avalanche and cornice fall conditions exist in some upper elevation terrain, mainly in the northern portion of the zone where more fresh snow accumulated recently.

• Beware large overhanging ridge-top cornices, which could break further back than you expect and might trigger avalanches on drifted slopes below.
• As usual, watch for and avoid recent drifts on the lee sides of ridges, cross-loaded along sub-ridges, and in and around terrain features like rock outcroppings, gullies, scoops, trees, and saddles.
• Older, hard wind slabs can be like mouse traps, sometimes allowing people to get well out on them before releasing.
• Be cautious in isolated drifted areas where the snowpack is shallow or thin and the basal snow is weak and rotten.

Temperatures remained above freezing at most stations overnight. Loose wet avalanches may become possible on slopes where saturated snow is softened by solar warmth. In most areas, there is not enough fresh snow for this to be much of a problem, but sluffs entraining a few inches of warming moist new snow are certainly possible at upper elevations. The snow lower down has been through numerous melt-freeze cycles, the round snow grains are fairly large, and avalanches are pretty unlikely even when the snow surface is softened by the midday warmth. Exceptions might be found on steep slopes in shallow or rocky areas with very soft or weak wet snow.