The snow surface has had another night with a solid refreeze, but natural and human triggered wet avalanches remain possible as snow heats up from the sun. Stay off of, and out from steep slopes as they start to get wet and sloppy. Plan your exits so you're not coming out of steep canyon bottoms during the heat of the day.

The Provo snowpack remains dangerous on some mid and upper elevation aspects, with a complexity that makes it difficult to identify patterns. Field reports indicate persistent weak layers are still reactive to stability tests, and this is enough for very experienced people to continue to provide a wide buffer of margin in this terrain. These are difficult and dangerous conditions to assess because to get into the upper elevation bowls, one must walk in/underneath many large slide paths. With warming from the sun, avalanching down in these persistent weak layers can produce very large avalanches, breaking several feet deep and hundreds of feet wide.

Shallow but sensitive wind drifts are now likely to be found in the north facing terrain. These may be triggered from a distance and - as always - most problematic in unforgiving terrain. The ramped-up east to southeast winds and weak snow surfaces should be enough to recalibrate one's mindset if headed to the more aggressive alpine terrain today.