Mount Baldy

You can find some small drifts on southerly-facing terrain at the highest elevations that could produce an avalanche, but the size would be quite small.  Storm totals from Sunday are less impressive here than just a few miles away along the spine of the Ruby Range.  Wind-loading seems to be a necessary ingredient to find a slab avalanche problem in this immediate area.

I found a few decent turns on this run by skiing on features with a supportive melt/freeze crust below the recent storm snow.

I experienced a handful of small collapses on eastery-facing terrain near treeline; sometimes with a soft crust capping the weak layer, sometimes without. Failure radiated up to 15 feet. While ascending an alpine rideline, I collapsed two large wind whales. I triggered a teeny, tiny wind slab on a southeast-facing feature.

My goal was to check out drifting on southeast features at upper elevations, and I found some recent drifts, but they were typically just a few inches thick and unreactive.  More of a breaker windboard than a slab in this area.  You didn't have to travel more than a ski length off the ridge to find soft snow.  I suspect there are a few isolated spots where you could trigger a small slab on southerly features with more significant drifting, but I didn't encounter it here.

This area received noticeably less snow than my previous day's tour in Baxter Basin, about 10 inches from the last storm.  Easterly and southeasterly slopes without wind loading don't appear to have a slab avalanche problem.  You might be able to push a tiny loose avalanche in the surface snow on very steep terrain.