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Do not let clear skies lure you into taking increased risks today. Be responsible and make conservative decisions in order to not further burden rescue, EMS, or health care systems at this time. At the high elevations slab avalanches could be human triggered in steep terrain where recent wind loading has occurred. These slabs are most likely to be found near exposed ridges and in cliffy areas. Slabs will become increasingly more sensitive this morning and afternoon as they are weakened by rapidly warming temperatures and direct sunlight. Warming will also provide the possibility for wet slide activity at all elevations this afternoon. Wet slide activity is likely to involve only surface snow above 8000 feet and could involve older snow to the ground below that elevation.

Conditions will be dry with light winds. Under clear skies overnight lows will fall into the 20's. Daytime highs will be warmer than today, rising into the 40’s in the mountains and well into the 50’s in the valleys. Abundant sunshine and warmer temperatures will increase the wet snow avalanche hazard. The hazard at all elevations is expected to be low in the early morning hours and will increase to moderate after snow surfaces soften. Wet loose avalanches will become possible on steep sunlit aspects at all elevations. At the lower elevations these wet slides could step down to the ground. At the mid and upper elevations these wet slides are likely to only involve the most recent new snow. Wet slab avalanches are also possible on a variety of aspects at the upper elevations. These conditions could cause cornices to fail. These cornice failures could trigger wet loose and wet slab slides. Monitor conditions for increasing wet snow hazards and get off of and out from under steep slopes when that hazard begins to increase.