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</style><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_3FE45715">See this </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FilGUG0Fk4" target="_blank"><span class="s_B5813F7D">great video</span></a><span class="s_3FE45715"> from our South Rockies field team that does an awesome job of summarizing the general state of the snowpack.</span></p><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_3FE45715">Recent winds have been primarily out of the southwest, which has created fresh wind slabs in alpine and treeline lee terrain. </span><span class="s_AA239A9B">Cornices have also become large and unstable.</span></p><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_3FE45715">The snow surface has become moist on all aspects up to 1700m. Around 70-80 cm of settling storm snow from the past week rests on a graupel layer that can be found in much of the region. This makes for around 90-100 cm on top of the mid march crust at this point. This crust exists on all aspects below 2000m and on solar aspects in the high alpine. North of Sparwood and in the Crowsnest Pass area, the buried crust seems more specific to previously sun-exposed slopes. </span></p><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_AA239A9B">The deep facet/crust persistent weakness buried at the beginning of February (now down up to 150cm) seems unlikely to trigger in areas where the hard, supportive exists. No matter where you are in the region, this weakness should stay on your radar as any activity at this interface would be large and destructive. Possible triggers include a large cornice fall, a large input in a thin snowpack area or solar warming.</span></p><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_AA239A9B"> </span></p>