There's plenty of fresh snow to work with and just a little bump in wind speed will form fresh drifts, sensitive to our additional weight. Complicating matters slightly are old stubborn drifts left over from the big weekend wind event which are now camouflaged under last nights fresh snow, making them harder to detect. In either case, this avalanche problem is easily managed with terrain choices. Lose a little elevation, you lose the problem, and you're rewarded with a great day of spring powder to boot!

The snowpack is getting comfortable in its own skin and that's good news in terrain where the snowpack is deep. However, snow is a curious medium and all we need to do is find one inconsistency or a shallow zone, maybe around a rock or bush, collapse the pack, and now we've got a bigger slide than we might've bargained for. So my safe travel strategy is to think about suspect terrain I want to continue avoiding and that includes steep, rocky terrain and slopes that avalanched near the ground earlier in the season. And here's something to consider... we've got a "go anywhere" base, so if you're getting into steep, technical terrain, remember that even a small slide can knock you off your ride, slam you into a tree, and throw a curve ball at your day.