New snow, driven by wind, will land on a variety of surfaces from slick and hard, to weak and faceted. In most cases the new snow will not bond well to any of them but the danger will depend on how much snow we get. We could see everything from shallow, loose snow natural avalanches on steep alpine slopes with underlying, slick hard surfaces, to human triggered soft slab avalanches where the new snow has been thickened or deposited by wind. Human triggered, loose snow avalanches could even gouge into weak, faceted snow on slopes similar to where I dug today. By and large though, we'll need about 8" or more of new snow for it to become a real problem.
6" of recent snow sits on top of a faceted layer with a thin melt/freeze crust underneath. The rest of the snowpack is faceted with the exception of CRC.
