(Let's call it "new-ish" snow.) There are three possible issues to watch for with our snowfall from last Thursday:

1. Wet Loose Snow: Expect minor, wet-loose avalanche activity on solar/sunny slopes as the day warms. Although these should be minor, be sure not to get caught in a steep terrain trap or carried over rocks.

2. Wind Drifts: Although most wind drifts have settled out and are now unreactive, there are some upper elevation slopes where you can find dense wind drifts that formed Friday or Saturday that may be reactive. Saturday's sledder-triggered avalanche on Whiskey Hill near Monte Cristo is a perfect example of the type of avalanche that is possible (photo below).

3. Sluffing: The snow surface is quickly weakening with facets and surface hoar in the top few inches of snow on shady, northerly aspects which may sluff easily on steep slopes. Just as with minor wet, loose snow, even a small sluff could carry you over rocks in steeper terrain.

Sledder-triggered slide from Saturday on Whiskey Hill.

Recent field observations and reports from Ogden area resorts indicate that - although there are facets at the base of the snowpack on upper-elevation northerly-facing slopes - the problem is going dormant. The most suspect terrain are steep, north-facing slopes at the upper elevations that have been recently wind-loaded.