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</style><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_3FE45715">The mid-January Surface hoar seems to be most sensitive in this region. Two more small (size 1-1.5) persistent slabs were triggered by skiers in the Monashees on Wednesday. They occurred on north and south aspects at 1700 m.</span></p><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_3FE45715">On Tuesday there was quite a bit of activity from solar aspects throughout the region. In the neighboring Glacier National Park, a size 3 avalanche was skier triggered on a steep southeast facing slope in the alpine. More details and photos </span><a href="https://www.avalanche.ca/map?panel=mountain-information-network-submissions/c4475df2-6e51-4e42-90a6-67f9f674f2ba" target="_blank"><span class="s_B5813F7D">here</span></a><span class="s_3FE45715">. Skier triggered avalanches from size 1.5 to 2.5 were reported from south and southeast facing terrain between 2300 and 2500 m. Clear skies allowed for increasingly strong late January sun, which was likely a factor in these avalanches. Another size 2.5 persistent slab failed naturally on a northeast facing feature at 1900 m. </span></p><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_3FE45715">Two more reports came in Monday of skiers triggering persistent slab avalanches to size 1.5 on a variety of aspects between 1500 and 1800 m. This </span><a href="https://www.avalanche.ca/map/forecasts/south-columbia?panel=mountain-information-network-submissions/54f86f4c-9fcc-424f-a0da-e39b72a22f72" target="_blank"><span class="s_B5813F7D">MIN post</span></a><span class="s_3FE45715"> and </span><a href="https://www.avalanche.ca/map?panel=mountain-information-network-submissions/1d49d58c-7e8c-4918-85c5-cf4747a779aa" target="_blank"><span class="s_B5813F7D">this one</span></a><span class="s_3FE45715"> (from the neighboring South Columbias) do a great job of illustrating the nature of this problem which is most prevalent between 1400 and 1900 m. This interface will likely wake up as storm snow begins to stack up over the weekend.</span></p><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_3FE45715"> </span></p>