Lingering soft wind drifts may still be triggered at the mid and upper elevations today. They won't be a sensitive as yesterday, but don't let the third wind pillow take you by surprise. Remember that the wind drifts may be well off the ridgelines where they might be cross-loaded into gulley features and to the lee of rocky outcroppings. Careful evaluation is key. While drifts will be most pronounced on north to east to south facing aspects, terrain channeling and eddying allows for drifts to be deposited on all aspects, particularly at the mid-elevation.

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Our deep slab avalanches, while becoming increasingly stubborn, can roar back to life with any additional stress, ie: heavy snowfall, strong winds, etc. Cornices may also be a good trigger for these larger avalanches. We haven't heard of any avalanches into this old layering 3-6' deep for awhile...and they may be more common north toward the Logan area...and south toward the Bountiful/Sessions areas....but they very much remain central to my route selection. These deeper slabs exist on west to north to southeast facing slopes at the mid and upper elevations are you are more likely to trigger these in steep, thin, rocky terrain or areas that may have avalanched during previous cycles.

These avalanches are tricky insofar that immediate signs of instability are often not present and it's easy to be lured onto slopes with other tracks, particularly when snow depths and snow tests might point "stable". The problem is the wide spatial variability across many slopes where you might hit the trigger point here (where the slab is thinner) but not there (where the slab is thicker).

My travel advice is to continue to avoid being on or beneath steep terrain where the facets in the basement exist.