Todays intense sunshine and warm temperatures, quickly loosen the surface snow on all aspects and all elevations. That, in turn, ramps up the avalanche danger on steep, sun-baked slopes. The good news is... wet avalanche issues are easy to avoid. If you're feeling like an ant under a magnifying glass, so is the snow. As the day heats up and the snow you're riding becomes damp, manky, or unsupportable, simply switch to a cooler aspect or call it a day and move on to other activities. In addition, avoid terrain traps like steep road cuts or gullies where wet cement-like snow can stack up very deeply.

Not much has changed on this front. The Uinta's are amazing right now... fat, white and filled in. As a matter of fact, we've got a solid snowpack with a go anywhere base, which enables us to get onto big slopes and tag complex terrain. But, as you know, the Uinta's are a big range. And while the vast majority of our terrain is good to go, if you were looking to trigger an avalanche, I bet you could find one. And, the snowmobile triggered avalanche on Notch Mountain (above), not only illustrate the type of terrain we love to ride in the spring, it's also the type of terrain where we could trigger a slide today that breaks deeper and wider than we might expect. The most likely places you could trigger a dry snow avalanche are gonna be isolated to the high country... steep, rocky, leeward slopes in the wind zone at and above treeline.