Many people found stable snow yesterday: Nikki and Pat as well as Derek Debruin and others found stable snow along the Cutler ridge. You can find their observations in the menu above. Similarly, many people rode steep lines without incident. When we investigated the No Name avalanche yesterday, we found that it avalanched on an admittedly hard to detect weak layer associated with last weekend's or early week's crusts. We did not find this weakness anywhere else....and this should give pause to the backcountry traveler: there were no signs of cracking, collapsing, or similar types of avalanches. And yet an avalanche occurred at an interface that - in similar fashion - caused problems for backcountry skiers/riders in the central Wasatch. I would rate this as low probability, high consequence.

Pockets of wind slab may still be found along the higher terrain...or to the lee of other terrain features. Mike Fogg and companion intentionally triggered a soft slab just beyond a wind lip in the Monte Cristo area. These may be spotty in nature but avoided in the upper elevation north to east to south facing slopes. Cracking is a sign of local instability.