Very weak sugary or faceted snow near the ground is widespread across the region, and people could trigger avalanches where a slab of more cohesive snow has formed on top of the weak snow.

Today's moderate south west winds are enough to drift fresh snow into lee slope avalanche starting zones and build drifts high on steep slopes. Soft wind slab avalanches triggered by people are likely today on steep mid and upper elevation slopes facing northwest through southeast.

Sluffs or loose dry avalanches of new snow are likely in steep terrain, and these could be fast and run pretty far on weak snow that was on the snow surface before the recent storm. In some areas, moderate south and west winds may have created more cohesive slabs of new snow, and soft slab avalanches are possible for people to trigger. A small avalanche overrunning a slope with poor snow structure could cause a larger, more dangerous avalanche. The load of the new snow may be enough in some areas to overload deeper buried persistent weak layers that are widespread across the zone, and large natural and human triggered avalanches could result.