Much the same from yesterday except that the snow will soften much earlier than yesterday and the mid-elevation northerly aspects will also dampen and become susceptible to wet sluffs.

Just like clockwork, today's sunny aspects will transition from rock-hard coral to soft, damp, and supportable to wet and unstable. Play your cards right in playing your aspects right. Move from east to south to west facing terrain to catch that "soft, damp and supportable window" on each. And timing is everything. Arrive too early and it's a visit to the dentist's office. Arrive too late and you've put yourself at risk for wet avalanches. If you're riding through unsupportable wet snow, seeing pinwheels and rollerballs, or observing natural wet loose sluffs, it's time to hit the road.

We may start to see the much more dangerous wet slab avalanches with the radically warm temperatures during the day and superficial refreezes - at best - during the overnight hours.

For more info on wet slabs, click on link in profile.

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The cornices along the mid and upper elevation ridgelines have become enormous and unruly this year. With enhanced warming, they will continue to be exceptionally dangerous and unstable. Remember that they will break well back beyond the apex of the ridgeline. It's best to approach any ridgeline with caution or with a spotter who can see where the snow ends and the earth begins. These cornices have gained enough mass to potentially trigger an avalanche on the slope below. Cornice-fall and cornice-related avalanches account for roughly 5% of our avalanche fatalities. Glide avalanches just under 2%.

Glide avalanches are challenging to predict, but tend to release during periods of rapidly warming temperatures that both enhance the slow downhill glide rate of the entire snowpack and allow for snow melt to percolate down to the ground interface. They can release without warning anytime - day or night - and produce large, catastrophic avalanches and impressive debris piles. Glide releases are most common in Stairs Gulch, Broads Fork, and Mill B South of Big Cottonwood Canyon...but glide cracks have been noted in other isolated terrain across the range. Click on the 'i' next the to info-graphic for more info.

You can read about the Feb 2013 glide accident in Broads Fork here and the tragic double fatality in Stairs Gulch from April 2001 here.