There were no big changes in conditions on Saturday. Avalanches breaking into deep buried weak layers remain my biggest concern. Be on guard at all elevations and aspects. The information below is from Saturday's forecast which describes what is happening in the higher terrain. The lower terrain has much weaker snow near the ground and any steep slope needs to be treated as avalanche terrain.

WE HAVE JUST RAPIDLY LOADED THE SNOWPACK AGAIN WHICH IS STRESSING IT! Obviously from the avalanche activity, the deeply buried persist weak layers of snow have been pushed to the brink. The term "weak" in the phrase "persistent weak layer" is relative. It's not that the buried weak snow is all that weak right now, it's that we've rapidly added a a very large load on top of it. When we have super weak layers of snow that get buried, they can't hold very much snow before they avalanche. The current buried persistent weak layers are not all that weak, thus, they can hold a lot of snow before they fail. My thinking is that after some more time to settle, the snowpack will become fairly stable and we may stop seeing avalanches breaking into these deep weak layers. FOR NOW, ANTICIPATE DANGEROUS AVALANCHE CONDITIONS THIS WEEKEND.