It's amazing how rapidly snow changes with a kiss of strong springtime sun and just a bit of heating. As a matter of fact, most of our midweek storm snow instabilities have settled, are happy in their own skin, and you can get on plenty of steep slopes without incident. It doesn't take long to realize, the range is about as white and fat as it gets and we've got a supportable, go-anywhere kinda base. Now, here's the good news.... most of our terrain offers "green-light" avy danger. Now the heads up... if you're getting into steep, technical terrain today, don't let your guard down because there are isolated areas where recent wind drifts are camouflaged under light, fluffy snow, making them hard to detect. Once triggered, they'll have no problem bossing you around and will easily throw a curve ball at you, potentially ruining a great day of riding.

The key to riding safely today is... look for and avoid fat, rounded slopes like in the image above, especially if they feel or sound hollow like a drum. In addition, be flexible with your travels plans and adjust objectives if you're starting to see or feel obvious clues to unstable snow like shooting cracks, sudden collapses, or the biggest clue to avalanches and of course, that's avalanches!