I suspect the warm dense snow is well bonded and avoiding wind-loaded slopes will be the key to avoiding avalanches. However, it's worth assessing the new snow. With up to 2.20 inches of water in the new snow, it could make a meaty soft slab avalanche. Check small, steep, test slopes; step or ride above the track from another person; and do a few snowpack tests to see how the new snow has bonded to itself and underlying layers. Look for a melt-freeze crust, maybe 2-3 feet deep, that formed during recent warm, sunny weather and assess how the snow is bonding to that crust. Control work is producing avalanches on that crust in the Ogden area.

It's complicated. But it's also so simple.

The complicated part: is where and when do you trigger an avalanche on our persistent weak layer? Our weak layer is now buried roughly 2-6' deep with a thick, hard slab of snow above. It seems the most likely spot to trigger an avalanche will be in a steep thin rocky area.

One slope is stable and then another can produce a large, deep and dangerous slab avalanche. How do you know or manage which option you get? I honestly do not know how to manage this problem or provide any advice in dealing with this problem with how variable the snowpack is.

Here comes the simple part. I would avoid avalanche terrain for now and let the snowpack adjust and settle more. This added weight is a good thing for the snowpack long-term. However, today the added weight is only adding stress and increasing the likelihood of triggering an un-survivable avalanche.