yeah, the tetons aren't the safest place to be at this moment.
snowpack is 200+% of normal and the seemingly never ending snowstorms have yet to consolidate. the rangers are telling everyone that you need to be back at camp by 9-10am because of avalanche danger. there is loads of evidence scattered throughout the range highlighted by the enormous slides of the open book couloir(disappointment's south cliffs) which slid past snowline to the valley floor and a monster on hunt's south face which supposedly was 20-25 feet deep. our projected route up the stettner/chevy/ford couloirs on the grand's south face looks like fluffed up pillows from a distance. all it needs is a trigger. also, the giant boulder in the meadows has been overrun by a slide(13-14' deep) off the north face of nez perce which killed two experienced climbers while they slept during the afternoon, assuming they were in a secure position. i would have agreed with them pre-slide because i believed that was the one safe zone to camp in the meadows....apparently not. the rangers are suggesting no one camps higher than platforms for the time being.
we spoke with three exum guides late friday afternoon who spent the day traveling from lupine meadows TH to the lower saddle and back to shovel out their tents. they reported that there was good cramponing conditions in the morning(7-9am) and things were "slushy" on their ski out. they were back at the TH ~4:45pm. since then, the tetons have received a good deal of rain in the alpine and any improvements the snowpack had seen are gone for now.
jamie
