Very brief observation from a not-quite dawn patrol to East Bowl of Silver Fork. Overall wanted to communicate that I was finding the same structure that others (i.e. Mark White) were finding on Tuesday on East aspects - basic structure is a few cms of dense snow and graupel sitting on top of old snow surface, with a ~5 cm wind crust on top of that. Today I was getting clean, Moderate to Hard shears at that layer of graupel. Quick pits were showing the the thin wind slab was not sensitive and would not crack. Overall it seems any concerns with the wind-loaded structure on primarily East facing aspects have settled out. I was able to get some sluffs on steep North aspects in the early morning, but otherwise was seeing no evidence of instability in the snowpack. Hazard rating seemed Low to me during my early morning tour. Likely rose to Moderate on solar aspects. Probably Low Thursday morning rising to Moderate as the sun warms the snow surface.

Saw lots of tracks throughout the central Wasatch this morning. Really nice to see people continuing to get after it and chase what we have left of winter.