The winds are starting to feel like your old college roomate that decides to couch surf longer than they were invited for. And they've been camping out over the region since Saturday! With no shortage of light density snow to blow around, fresh drifts sensitive to our additional weight are today's main avalanche concern. It's a pretty straight-forward avalanche dragon to contend with. Mid and upper elevation, cross-loaded chutes, gullies, or bowl features are likely suspects. Remember- if you're getting into steep, commiting terrain, keep in mind that even a small slide can quickly ruin your day. So today you'll want to look for and steer clear of both soft and hard, fat rounded pieces of snow, particularly if they feel or sound hollow like a drum. The good news is... this is an easy avalanche problem to avoid. Simply lose some elevation, get into wind sheltered terrain, and you not only lose the problem, you get some great riding in to boot... not a bad deal!

Pictured above, one of the medium sized corni in Upper Weber Canyon. These unpredictable pieces of snow are breaking further back than you might expect and you definitely don't want to be on the receiving end of one of these boxcar-like monsters. (C. Brown photo)