The new snow appears to be mostly stable. I did not see any avalanches or other red flags like cracking on Thursday. Stability tests were not producing any clean shears and looked good. There was very little wind transported snow and I did not notice any significant fresh drifts or slabs.

I think the main thing to keep an eye on is what the new snow does if it starts getting wet. You may be able to initiate wet loose avalanches on very steep slopes if the new snow warms and gets wet.

The old weak layers buried deep in the snowpack are still worth a mention. I believe we may have finally turned the corner where these layers aren't posing a huge threat anymore. Last week's very warm temperatures melted and settled the snowpack quite a bit. It is frozen up hard under the new snow. This has made it so that it is fairly unlikely that a person can affect those deep weak layers at this time. That said, I'm still uneasy about them and you won't find me in really steep terrain like what I would normally be riding at this time of the season in most years.