You may be able to find a hard wind slab somewhere in this area that is still sensitive to skiers, but this instability seems to have stabilized significantly or run it's course here. The snowpack contains plenty of faceted layers, but the empirical evidence indicates you'd have to get unlucky to trigger a sizeable persistent slab avalanche in this area (lots of tracks in avalanche terrain and no D2 avalanches in many weeks, about 5" of snowfall in the past month, no recent reports of significant cracking or collapsing).
No significant weather during the short time I was out (11 AM - 1 PM). There is very little snow available for transport.
See photo of old wind slab.
I traveled on several knife-hard wind slabs on generally E-SE aspects below exposed ridges; they were up to 3 feet thick, and none were reactive. In the areas with less wind-loading from last week, the thinner hard slabs, sastrugi, and wind board were faceting.
Surfaces on shady, somewhat sheltered slopes: 20-30cm of near-surface FC ("recycled powder").
Solar surfaces: mixture of "young" corn, glazed +very hard surfaces, and breakable crusts.
"Margins" on the compass (W, W-NW, E-SE, SE) in somewhat sheltered terrain: mostly breakable crusts and FC, with little to no meltwater penetration into layers below or in between crusts.
S-SW on the east side of the highway (Quigley, Patterson) were burned off to the ground in places. This process is farther along on the Pioneer Mtns side of the drainage versus the Smoky Mtn side of the drainage.
No notable problems were observed. The rock-hard wind slabs that formed last week were unreactive - no cracks with me stomping and jumping on them where it was safe to mess with them. The thinner, softer wind slabs and "wind-board" was faceting and losing strength. I did not observe any loose snow problems, but I only traveled on slopes less than 35*.
I was traveling solo. I avoided all large, heavily wind-loaded starting zones and all slopes steeper than 35*.