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</style><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_3FE45715">Thursday and Friday's storm snow (10- 30 cm) is sitting on a crust that is present at all elevations on solar aspects as well as low elevation northerly aspects. Whereas northerly and east aspects at treeline and alpine elevations the storm snow sits on a mix of large surface hoar and surface facets.</span></p><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_3FE45715">Deeper in the snowpack in the north of the region, polar aspects (those that face north and east) are harboring cold snow and a surface hoar interface buried early March that is about 30-50 cm below the surface. This layer exists at alpine and treeline elevations, but it is not everywhere. This layer has produced large human triggered avalanches in the north of the region in the past week.</span></p><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_3FE45715">Also in the north of the region a weak layer buried mid-February is about 60 to 80 cm below the surface and has been reactive in snowpack tests. The layer is composed of sugary facets, a sun crust on solar aspects, and surface hoar that is present at and below treeline. </span></p><p class="p_CC664AAA"><a id='GoToAdded' href="http://www.avalanche.ca/mountain-information-network/submissions/f5eee315-284e-4eba-807c-dcd53da6e99e" target="_blank"><span class="s_B5813F7D">Read some recent observations here.</span></a><span class="s_3FE45715" /></p><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_3FE45715">In the south of the region, around the Coquihalla and in Manning Park, the recent storm snow overlies a recent crust that caps a well settled snowpack.</span></p>