Unfortunately, avalanches can still break near the ground on a persistent weak layer of old faceted snow that caused many avalanches about two weeks ago. The odds of triggering one of these slides has gone down significantly but the consequences remain severe. The tricky part of the situation is that in areas further north that received a lot more snow, the snowpack is much deeper and triggering a slide on this layer is very difficult. The Provo area mountains received less snow during the Valentine's storms and had less snow on the ground prior to those storms. All of this means that a rider can still impact this layer and trigger an avalanche.

One complicating factor - Many slopes produced big avalanches two weeks ago and will have maybe 2 feet of snow on top of the bed surface. We haven't heard of any avalanches repeating on these slopes, but I would be hesitant to totally trust them without doing a thorough assessment which could be difficult because the only way to examine the snowpack on these slopes will be to go into the avalanche starting zone.