Yesterday’s winds were drifting snow at all elevations and on all aspects - high ridge lines, mid elevations bowls and subridges and even into the low elevations. Avoid the dense and cakey slabs of wind drifted snow on steep slopes and watch for these drifts in unusual spots at the mid and lower elevations. These drifts may be even more stubborn today, wanting to break above you. Instead, head for very wind sheltered terrain.

It has gotten more complicated - there is weak, sugary faceted snow mid snowpack in the Ogden area mountains. The weak snow formed on the surface before the last storm, and is now buried beneath the new 2 to 3 feet of snow. This snow is at mid and low elevations, in addition to upper elevations. You are most likely to trigger a slide on one of the mid-pack faceted weak layers on a wind drifted slope. Slides breaking on sugary facets can be remotely triggered from a distance. I would expect to trigger some of these slides on "unusual micro terrain features" at the low elevations, including terrain traps like small gullies.

Today’s wild card - much warmer temperatures and the possibility of direct sun are in today’s forecast. This combination may heat the snow surface on steep sunny slopes, and wet loose sluffs will become possible. Look for telltale signs of heating snow - the snow becoming heavy, damp or sticky, roller balls or small wet loose sluffs starting to run. This means it’s time to get off of and out from under the steep sunny slopes that are heating.