From what I've seen the past few days, most instabilities within recent storm snow have settled out, but there are some buried weak layers that are still reactive. Today, I focused on aspects facing east and southeast and in a few pits, I was able to get full propagation with extended column tests, failing on a layer of decomposing fragments on top of a suncrust that formed Thursday morning, during a rare period of sunshine. The slab on top is 45-60 cms thick and 4F hard. I was not finding any persistent weak layers - such a facets on top of the crust - so I am expecting this weakness to heal fairly soon, but it clearly still needs some time. (It is also possible there is a thin layer of facets on top of this crust on other slopes - just none that I've seen.)

Over the past couple of days, there have been four notable avalanches failing on this weak layer on top of the sun crust:

Weathering Heights - Sunday, March 5 - East aspect at 8,300

Ricardo's Roll - Sunday, March 5 - East aspect at 8,800'

Grand Central - Monday, March 6 - Southeast aspect at 9,000'

Tuscarora - Monday, March 6 - Southeast aspect at 10,600'

We typically think of southerly-facing slopes as generally safer than northerly-facing slopes, but this weak layer on top of a crust needs more time to adjust - slopes that seem to have this weak structure are at least east through south-facing, although it is possible this crust is also present on southwest and west-facing slopes.