The Uintas don't have avalanches ripping out everywhere as in mid January, but there are definitely a few weak layers that worry me.

We looked at the recent remotely triggered slide and then triggered another both on east facing slopes near treeline. These broke on a layer of facets above a crust. I think this layer got enough warmth and sun last Saturday and Monday that it's not an issue on due south facing slopes. Certainly it's an issue on East and West and likely Southeast and Southwest.

Then we looked for a west facing slope but ended up on a NW facing slope where I didn't think we'd find a reactive Valentines weak layer. What was surprising was to find the facets without an ice crust that both produced unstable test results (ECTP10) and produced a shooting crack (photo below).

And again, as in every northerly facing pit, I found a buried layer of surface hoar with some of the largest crystals I've seen yet. (Photo below).

Finally we had a close call with cornices. We triggered a massive cornice fall...like the size of a school bus. We thought we were far enough away because we didn't realize how big they were. They broke right at our skis. Clearly we were right on the line, and we were on the right side of it, but we had no margin for error and I'd say we just got lucky.