If you can't stand the heat

Sun and warming having their wicked way with the snowpack. Roughly 3 stages/ types of effects:

• Sticky, furry snow where colder snow is first getting wet. Glopping to skis and skins, rollerballs and pinwheels, small point releases. Some SE-ENE slopes mid elevations, some S up high, some E-N down low. Did not get firsthand feel for SW or W. This is the snow where you could trigger a wet loose avalanche that roughs you up. 
• Wet but supportable snow that's fine- to coarse-grained melt freeze grains. Not sinking into this stuff, and skis and skins don't stick or glop. Refreezing by mid-late afternoon. E-SE-S mid elevations. These slopes feel like they're on the verge of sweet, ripe corn. Another night of mostly clear skies? 
• Unsupportable, wet mush. Sinking in on skis. Near or at isothermal. Mostly still spots/ patches. Once these areas cover more of a slope, loose wet slides will gouge deep below the surface and entrain scary amounts of snow.

Heard/ saw about 1/2 dozen large wet loose slides off the south face of Essex Mountain early - mid afternoon. Tough to see start and end points, but these seemed to run over 1000 feet in very steep terrain. Saw a few D1-1.5 wet loose slides in Belton and Badrock Canyons on steep northerly slopes at road level.

We turned back from our objective when the planned route looked like stupineering and the alternate required traversing below a steep, south-easterly bowl early afternoon. We found soft, dry, carvable snow on E facing slopes above 6500 ft and N facing slopes above 4500 feet. Even the slopes that were refreezing rode well.