• Watch for and avoid stiffer drifted snow near ridge lines and in and around terrain features like cliff bands, scoops, gully walls, and sub-ridges.
• Wind slabs are often rounded and chalky looking, and they might sound hollow, like a drum.
• Soft fresh wind slabs can be quite sensitive, and are often remotely triggered. Hard wind slabs can be more devious, sometime allowing one to get out on them before releasing.
• Avoid forming ridge top cornices, which can break much further back than expected and start avalanches on slopes below.

The sugary October persistent weak layer near the ground on northerly facing upper elevation slopes appears to be dormant for now, but it could be reactivated in some places by a new load of wind drifted snow. Dangerous hard slab avalanches might be triggered by smaller avalanches of wind drifted snow overrunning slopes with poor snow structure. It's unlikely that a person could trigger an avalanche on the Halloween weak layer these days because the snow above it is so deep and hard. No avalanches failing on this layer have occurred in the Logan Zone since the mid-December natural cycle, but the sugary faceted grains are still quite loose and weak on shady sloopes. If one was to hit a slope in the right place, a "sweet spot", like a thinner part of a the slab, or perhaps a steep rocky area or a convexity with thin snow cover, a large deep slab avalanche could be triggered.