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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 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 Columbia region) do a great job of illustrating the nature of this problem which is most prevalent between 1400 and 1900 m. </span><a href="https://www.avalanche.ca/map/forecasts/south-columbia?panel=mountain-information-network-submissions/748c6f07-fc4a-4244-a57b-e3a08f9ae4c6" target="_blank"><span class="s_B5813F7D">This MIN</span></a><span class="s_3FE45715"> is a bit older, but it also offers a great visual of this mid and low elevation problem. 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">On Sunday wind slabs failed naturally to size 2.5 on northwest, northeast, east, southeast and south facing aspects between 1900 and 2800 m. Persistent slab avalanches failing on the mid January Persistent Weak Layer (PWL) were widespread to size 1.5 on all aspects between 1500 and 1900 m.</span></p><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_3FE45715">There were a few reports of remote triggering Friday on north, northwest and east facing slopes. One was triggered from a flat ridge 30 m away from the avalanche which ran on a moderately inclined north facing slope at 1900 m producing a size 2.5 avalanche.</span></p>