If you're looking for dry snow, it mostly exists on upper elevation, north-facing slopes, BUT these slopes are ones where you may find soft slabs of wind drifted snow. Many of these wind slabs should have bonded and stabilized, but some may remain possible to trigger. Several observers reported snow transport still occurring yesterday at the highest elevations. That continued loading means wind slabs can be triggered today.

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CORNICES - Cornices in some places are massive. These monsters are unpredictable especially during warm weather when they start bending downhill. Avoid being under or near the tops of large cornices.

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Strong sunshine and warm air temperatures today should quickly warm the snow surface. As the snow becomes wet and loses cohesion, loose wet avalanches will be possible. Slopes with exposed rocks tend to heat up the most as rocks readily absorb solar radiation and add additional heat to the surrounding snow. These areas may produce some wet loose avalanches naturally.

Pay attention to how wet the snow becomes. The wetter it becomes the more likely it will be for wet avalanches to occur. Also watch for pinwheels and rollerballs tumbling downhill. Seeing more and more of these balls of snow roll downhill indicates that the likelihood of wet avalanches is increasing. Avoid being in creek bottoms or gullies as the snow gets wet because even small avalanches can be deadly in these confined areas.