Although, I didn't spent any real time today in the high alpine terrain I bet on the right slope you could certainly find a wind slab avalanche. I did notice a few older rounded pillows of snow in safe locations that I took the time to pounce on with no cracking results. If tonights storm is well behaved without any real wind transport (unlikely). I'd say that the wind drifted snow problem with ease off, but there is tons of low density snow available for transport and we will be adding a bunch of new snow to that in the near future, so It will likely become more of a problem.

I received word that yesterdays remotely triggered avalanche failed on PWL's near the ground on old October snow. It's no secret that we have a poor snowpack structure with multiple PWL's throughout the pack. It's tricky out there right now. Some areas in the pack are gaining strength and other areas are still capable of producing full depth remotely triggered avalanches. As uncertainty in the snowpack increases, our terrain choices must reflect these uncertainties, and become more simple. With the current storm delivering in upwards of 2 to 3 feet of new snow by Friday. I'd think that the PWL's laying dormant in the pack will become cranky and reactive again until they have the time to adjust to the weight of the new load. With high precip rates and possibly new snow avalanches happening during the storm it's also, possible that these new snow, or wind drifted snow avalanches could step down into these deeper PWL's and create much larger avalanches.