On quick hand pits we were getting nice clean shears about 14-16" down to come out with a fair bit of effort. There was some of discussion about water weight: does increased temps that makes the snow feel heavier actually increase the actual weight? (we think not, and there was only about 3" of new). Regardless of that point, with a fair bit more loading it may be possible to create enough pressure to generate that "fair bit of effort" on those layers that will soon be more like 2.5+ feet deep, creating the potential for big avalanches. But maybe not? Hard sayin' at this point. Could be that the new storm comes in as a slab and any new snow slab avies could generate enough pressure to step down? Again, at this point hard sayin'. But this big change from a couple of days ago and more big changes in the forecast makes us wary.
