Was up in the Powder Mountain area today and the avalanche forecast continues to verify. At/near high elevations there was a light crust on solars, remnant wind loading (unreactive underfoot), NSF/surface hoar on polars, and the persistent strong over weak snowpack set up. Took a few photos of general coverage. Sun exposed terrain has little/no snow below 8000ft or so. See the Hidden Lake photo for an example of this spatial variability.

James Peak is holding snow in the high northerly terrain as well as in the drainages. Since the drainages are where the skiing is found, I'm wary of this set up with the next storm as fresh snow will be falling on well-preserved facets.

Much the same can be said for Ben Lomond and Mount Ogden. I imagine the Cutler headwall will be no-go terrain for quite some time given how much snow is still present. Similarly, I don't plan on going near Banana Chute nor Hells Canyon (Mount Ogden; neither pictured in this obs) for similar reasons. The south face of Willard still holds snow, and would probably be the place to find wet snow activity if one were hunting for it. Island Peak south side, Cutler Ridge/Birthday Bowls, and Rodeo Ridge have a whole lot of brown mixed with the limited snow. My suspicion is that much of the terrain holds enough shrubbery to not cause widespread problems. However, there will be plenty of protected treed terrain (Bailey's, Dead Tree, weather station zones, etc.) where the existing facets will prove problematic as the snow will be deepest but the trees are not at all tight enough to anchor the snowpack. Of course, this all assumes the potential late-week system actually produces anything, but I'm an optimist.