Focus is on northwest, north and north easterly facing slopes, all of which have one or more layers of facets buried in the snow pack - a poor snow pack just waiting for a larger load and denser slab. To quote Paul Santana "a very fragile snow pack" - punchy in places, lots of spacial variable. I expect the next storm may do what the last storm didn't - create a more wide spread avalanche cycle, with the wind the key player.

Deeper slides may be triggered by step downs tomorrow - a smaller slide traveling a short distance and triggering a deeper slide.

This afternoon winds the were just getting started, shallow wind drifts to 6" along the ridges, cracky and we were able to trigger a few from a distance. A lot of snow available for transport tonight and tomorrow - forecast moderate southwesterly winds tonight and tomorrow will be efficient at loading north and northeasterly facing slopes. Old snow surface of low density snow will act as a weak layer.