Lingering soft wind drifts may still be triggered at the mid and upper elevations today. They won't be a sensitive as yesterday, but don't let the third wind pillow take you by surprise. Remember that the wind drifts may be well off the ridgelines where they might be cross-loaded into gulley features and to the lee of rocky outcroppings. Careful evaluation is key. While drifts will be most pronounced on north to east to south facing aspects, terrain channeling and eddying allows for drifts to be deposited on all aspects, particularly at the mid-elevation.

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Our deep slab avalanches, while becoming increasingly stubborn, can roar back to life with any additional stress, ie: heavy snowfall, strong winds, etc. Cornices may also be a good trigger for these larger avalanches. We haven't heard of any avalanches into this old layering 3-6' deep for a week or so, but they very much remain central to my route selection. These deeper slabs exist on west to north to southeast facing slopes at the mid and upper elevations are you are more likely to trigger these along the periphery of the Cottonwoods or in steep, thin, rocky terrain or areas that may have avalanched during previous cycles. To be clear: areas such as Mill Creek, the PC ridgeline, Snake Creek and parts of upper American Fork are most suspect.

These avalanches are tricky insofar that immediate signs of instability are often not present and it's easy to be lured onto slopes with other tracks, particularly when snow depths and snow tests might point "stable". The problem is the wide spatial variability across many slopes where you might hit the trigger point here (where the slab is thinner) but not there (where the slab is thicker).

My travel advice is to continue to avoid being on or beneath steep terrain where the facets in the basement exist. See Trent holding onto the weak sugary faceted snow he's pulled out of the bottom of the snowpack.