There is plenty of fresh powder for winds to transport. Winds should easily drift this new snow and form soft slabs but this shouldn't be a widespread problem. The best way to identify and avoid these fresh slabs is to look for them. They look pillowy, rounded and smoother than freshly fallen snow. They are often found on the opposite sides of ridges or other terrain features from places where the snow is scoured.

Some faceting seems to have occurred in recent days within the top foot of snow. I found some of these weak facets about a foot deep yesterday near Gobblers and they could make any fresh slabs of wind drifted snow extra sensitive today and possibly fracture over wider than expected areas. Photo below shows this layer which allowed the new snow to sluff easily in steep terrain yesterday.

Buried persistent weak layers in the snowpack have generally gained a lot of strength and avalanche activity on faceted layers has tapered off. There is an isolated chance of a slide 2-3 feet deep breaking on facets, but this is why we (1) only expose one person at a time (2) carry rescue gear and (3) watch our partners from a safe location.

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With so much snow falling in February and lots of strong winds, cornices have grown enormous. They will break back farther than you think, well back from the apex of the ridgeline. Exercise great caution along and underneath the heavily corniced ridgelines.