The avalanche danger is MODERATE today for human triggered avalanches involving wind drifted snow. Look for fresh shallow drifts at upper elevations on slopes facing NW-W-SE. Drifts that formed over Christmas will be stubborn today, but human triggered avalanches remain possible on steep, wind drifted slopes that face N-NE-E. In these same areas there is also an isolated possibility for avalanches to step down 2'-4' deep into buried, persistent weak layers of loose, sugary, faceted snow. Areas with steep, rocky, and more radical terrain are the most suspect for this type of avalanche. Most other terrain has generally LOW danger.