Our main man with the Uinta plan, Ted Scroggin, stomped around the Double Hill zone Saturday, catching this fresh wind slab peeling off the ridge, which in turn, triggered a deeper slide as it crashed on the slope below.

Winds are cranking and they'll have no problem creating yet another round of fresh drifts, reactive to our additional weight. Found mostly on the leeward side of upper elevation ridges, you'll also want to be on the lookout for drifts forming lower downslope than you might expect, as well as cross-loaded terrain like chutes and gullies. In either case, it's an easy and mostly manageable avalanche problem to avoid by simply steering clear of any fat, rounded piece of snow, particularly if it sounds hollow like a drum. And remember... our snowpack is super shallow and triggering even a small slide can take you for a body-bruising ride through rocks and stumps barely hidden under the thin snowpack.