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</style><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_3FE45715">On Wednesday control work around Kootenay Pass produced avalanches to size 3.5 on a variety of aspects. On the same day, natural avalanches failed to size 2.5. These avalanches may have started as storm slabs failing on the January 5th surface hoar, but stepped down to the mid-December and/or late November weak layers. An awesome MIN post from the same day also details some spooky skier-triggered avalanche activity around treeline in the Nelson area. Click </span><a id='GoToAdded' href="http://www.avalanche.ca/map/forecasts/kootenay-boundary?panel=mountain-information-network-submissions/fd805b6a-3363-423b-95be-0de77d8b09df" target="_blank"><span class="s_B5813F7D">here</span></a><span class="s_3FE45715"> for details. </span></p><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_3FE45715">On Thursday, a skier remotely triggered a size 1.5 slab avalanche from a distance of 50 metres in the mountains north of Nelson. This avalanche, which failed on the January 5 surface hoar, shows how touchy this interface continues to be. Explosives control in the Kootenay Pass area continued to trigger persistent slab avalanches up to size 2.5.</span></p><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_3FE45715">At the time of publishing this bulletin, no reports were available from Friday.</span></p><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_3FE45715">Looking forward, human triggering of large, destructive persistent slab avalanches at all elevation bands will remain a real possibility for the foreseeable future in many parts of the region. Warming and solar radiation on Sunday, will likely ignite another round of destructive natural activity</span></p><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_3FE45715"> </span></p><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_3FE45715"> </span></p>