The new snow settled a great deal on Monday. It is no longer producing shooting cracks. It is still a little inverted meaning that you punch through the dense snow on the surface to softer less dense snow underneath. This will be even less pronounced today as things continue to settle. Snowpit tests on Monday still propagated and revealed the weakness under the newest snow but the results were stubborn. Overall the snow pack looks ok right now. We really could use some more storms at this point to keep the momentum going or the shallow pack could start to fall apart and get weak.

For today, avoid the steepest terrain where the wind has deposited large drifts and you'll stay out of trouble.