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</style><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_3FE45715">Light snowfall over the past few days has given a thin cover to wind slabs that currently exist on a variety of aspects in wind-exposed terrain. In more sheltered areas, the new snow has also begun burying both faceted surface snow as well as surface hoar that exists on sheltered open slopes. While wind slabs are suspected to be growing more stubborn, our trickling supply of new snow can be expected to have fed into the wind slab problem in wind exposed areas. The persistent weakness buried mid-January is now down 50-100 cm</span><span class="s_AA239A9B"> and consists of buried surface hoar in sheltered areas, and/or widespread faceted old snow. It</span><span class="s_3FE45715"> has generally stabilized but may remain reactive in isolated areas, especially where buried surface hoar is preserved. </span></p><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_AA239A9B">Another surface hoar/facet weakness buried mid-December can now be found down about 70 cm in shallow snowpack areas, or as much as 1.5 m in deeper snowpack areas. This weak layer was responsible for several large human-triggered avalanches in late January, including some with multiple burials. While activity on this layer has declined, it should be treated as potentially reactive over the short term. </span><a id='GoToAdded' href="http://www.avalanche.ca/blogs/nearmisses-freegifts" target="_blank"><span class="s_9255B882">Click here for a blog post with more details.</span></a><span class="s_AA239A9B" /></p>