Pockety old and new wind drifts may be found in the steep wind drifted terrain and while yesterday's may be perhaps classified as stubborn hard slabs, today's will be softer and more sensitive. Both will be generally shallow but worthy of mention.

Buried faceted layers in the Ogden area snowpack are mostly dormant, and it will take a decent load of new snow (maybe a foot or so) to awaken this avalanche problem on many slopes. Unfortunately with faceted snow pesisting in the snowpack, mainly on NW, N, and NE facing slopes above 8500 feet, a small chance remains of triggering one of these avalanches. The buried surface hoar from 25 February is still on the radar for us and found more prominently on the east side of the Ogden mountain valleys. Collapsing and cracking are easy signs of instability here; snowpit tests remain warranted, especially with continued loading.

There is a lot of variability in the snowpack strength and depth. Slopes with a shallower snowpack, especially those that are rocky, tend to have weaker snow. Spatial variabitlity is what we call the differences from one slope to another and could make for tricky conditions if we get the forecast snow and wind.

See a short discussion in this video.