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</style><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_3FE45715">The current snowpack is complex, with three active weak layers that professionals are monitoring. Recent storm snow has been shifted by winds to form wind slabs and cornices.</span></p><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_3FE45715">Down about 30-70 cm is a crust and/or surface hoar layer buried mid-January. The crust is reportedly widespread, with the possible exception of high elevation north aspects. The surface hoar is up to 10 mm is size and has been reported at all elevation bands.</span></p><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_3FE45715">Deeper in the snowpack, the early-January persistent weak layer is found 40 to 120 cm below the surface. It is composed of surface hoar on sheltered slopes and sun crust on steep solar aspects and found at all elevation bands. Snowpack tests show sudden fracture characters with easy to moderate loads and high propagation potential, as well as whumpfs and cracking with skier traffic. Another weak layer buried mid-December consisting of a facet/surface hoar/crust combination is buried 40 to 100 cm deep. It is most problematic at and below tree line.</span></p><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_3FE45715">A rain crust buried in November is 100 to 150 cm deep and is likely dormant for the time being.</span></p><p class="p_CC664AAA"><a id='GoToAdded' href="http://www.avalanche.ca/mountain-information-network/submissions/ce27b9f4-fa23-4689-8641-894e6f483672" target="_blank"><span class="s_B5813F7D">See here for a good summary of snowpack test results</span></a><span class="s_3FE45715">.</span></p>