Winds were moving and drifting snow along ridges, cross-loading down off of ridgelines to 8400'. Most of the drifts were stubborn and unreactive, but a few propagated a short ways from my skis. Drifts were generally pockets and not widespread. Increasing danger as winds are forecasted to increase throughout the next 36 hours.

The slide on Sharps Mountain on Friday Feb 8 intrigued us at the UAC (observation). This was on a northwest aspect at 8500'. I looked at similar aspects today, generally between 8500' and 9000' in Wolf Creek Canyon and overall found a very stable snowpack, with depths exceeding 2 meters. However, I did find one possible outlier with HS 135 cms where the bottom ~30-40 cms of the snowpack was weaker facets. Difficult to gauge how widespread this problem is, and if it's more of an issue as the range moves more towards Cache Valley.

Came away with the feeling the problem of PWL's is isolated and will be found on west/northwest aspects that have been wind-scoured to prevent a deeper snowpack from developing and allowing facets to develop.