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</style><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_3FE45715">On Monday, small (size 1 to 1.5) wind slab avalanches were triggered naturally and by skiers. They were generally found on westerly aspects in exposed alpine terrain and around 20 to 30 cm deep.</span></p><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_3FE45715">On Saturday and Sunday, many persistent slab avalanches were observed. A skier triggered a large (size 2 to 2.5) avalanche within a slide path on a northeast aspect near Fernie. The avalanche was about 40 to 80 cm deep, on a northeast aspect, and at 1700 m. Although speculative, it is suspected that the avalanche may have released on one or both of the weak layers described in the Snowpack Summary. There was also widespread large (size 2) persistent slab avalanches observed </span><a href="https://www.avalanche.ca/mountain-information-network/submissions/eeafbdd1-8391-4e77-a476-bc9853f21cae" target="_blank"><span class="s_B5813F7D">- check the report out here</span></a><span class="s_3FE45715"> </span><a href="https://www.avalanche.ca/mountain-information-network/submissions/53e18524-242c-4457-8d3c-a4b04444b488" target="_blank"><span class="s_B5813F7D">and another one here</span></a><span class="s_3FE45715">. The avalanches also released on the surface hoar described in the Snowpack Summary. The slabs were 40 to 100 cm deep and occurred between 1550 m and 1700 m on north aspects. There has been substantial further evidence of instability within the buried weak layers, for example in the MIN reports </span><a href="https://www.avalanche.ca/mountain-information-network/submissions/c7acb548-ac1f-4bd0-af19-f7ff9e997140" target="_blank"><span class="s_B5813F7D">here,</span></a><span class="s_3FE45715"> </span><a href="https://www.avalanche.ca/mountain-information-network/submissions/0329bf6d-b9ca-412b-81e2-a542428d5e40" target="_blank"><span class="s_B5813F7D">here</span></a><span class="s_3FE45715">, </span><a href="https://www.avalanche.ca/mountain-information-network/submissions/20c2a793-6329-4788-9e67-202a3941028e" target="_blank"><span class="s_B5813F7D">and here</span></a><span class="s_3FE45715">.</span></p>