There might be a fresh wind drift or two, but in general these are isolated to the high elevation leeward slopes. While manageably breaking at or below your skis, board, or sled, remember... snow cover remains thin and any slide triggered today has the possibility to uncover stumps, rocks, or deadfall, resulting in an unexpected and possibly traumatic ride.

Test slopes like these give you great information about the snowpack. Tweak a few and see how they're reacting before you get into big terrain.

We're off to a good start in the Uinta's and our weak snow issues are isolated to a handful of upper elevation slopes facing the north half of the compass which retained snow from late September. While making up a small portion of the terrain available to ride in, if your travels take you into steep, upper elevation, north facing terrain, remember that any avalanche you trigger has the possibility of breaking into old snow, creating a deep, dangerous slide.

Here's a nice, deep pit from Weber Canyon. We haven't seen a solid homogenous snowpack like this for about 10 years. While things are looking good, there's still some weak snow near the ground we'll need to keep an eye on. Deutschlander photo.

My travels to the south half of the range this week revealed snow depths about half of the North Slope. However, most of the storm snow fell on bare, warm ground, creating a "right side up" snow structure.