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Without a significant refreeze of the saturated snow for well over a week, heightened wet avalanche conditions exist in the backcountry. Loose wet avalanches are likely in many areas, and devious, destructive wet slab avalanches are possible on steep rocky slopes with shallow, melt-softened, saturated snow. Overnight low temperatures at the highest elevations stayed far too warm again overnight, but are dropping this morning, and cooler temperatures and a breeze are expected in the mountains today. Today, you can expect to find a thin supportable crust in the morning with rough, dusty snow surfaces. The surface crust will soften during the day in the hot sun, and especially in sheltered terrain, the snow will become less supportable and punchy or sloppy. The snow is so soft and saturated in many areas that you post-hole right to the ground if you hop off your sled. Predicting the timing of wet avalanches is hard because the snow softens and becomes unstable at different elevations and aspects at different times. Given the uncertainty, your safest option is to avoid riding on or under steep slopes. Certainly, the risk is not worth the reward today.

The snow has been rapidly melting in the record heat, but temperatures are starting to drop a bit this morning in the mountains. At 0500, the UAC Card Canyon weather station at 8700 feet reports 40°F and 40.4 inches of total snow. It's 45°F at the Tony Grove Snotel, with 49 inches of total snow. On Logan Peak, winds are blowing from the west 22 to 33 mph. It's 37°F on Paris Peak at 9500 feet, and the winds are from the west, blowing 22 to 30 mph. It will be mostly sunny in the mountains again today, but it will also be breezy and much cooler. Temperatures at around 8500 feet in the Logan Zone will reach around 41°F, with a ventilating breeze blowing from the northwest. Overnight, temperatures will drop below freezing at upper elevations for the first time in well over a week. Expect a few clouds tomorrow, with unseasonably warm and mostly sunny conditions expected through the weekend. A shift in the pattern is expected next week, with cooler and wetter conditions (snow in the mountains), Tuesday onward...

Coverage is still pretty good at upper elevations in the Central Bear River Range, though the snow is rough, dusty, and debris-covered.