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</style><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_3FE45715">In the last 72 hours the North Shore Mountains have received about 91 mm of rain, and approximately 20 cm of snow with a rapidly fluctuating freezing level. A slight crust may have formed on the surface on Wednesday January 10th. </span></p><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_3FE45715">Just below the surface, 10 to 20 cm of rain soaked snow now rests on the rain crust that formed Monday January 8th. Below the January 8th crust there is 15 to 30 cm of well settled rain soaked snow, that snow sits on the January 7th melt/freeze crust. The January 8th crust may not be present in the Alpine where temperatures are thought to have stayed cooler over the last few days. Significantly more storm snow is likely present in the Alpine, but we have few observations from that elevation band. </span><a id='GoToAdded' href="http://www.avalanche.ca/map?panel=mountain-information-network-submissions/0a951d25-edb3-4721-a771-7ad0cc427ab3" target="_blank"><span class="s_B5813F7D">Check out this great MIN report for an idea of current alpine conditions.</span></a><span class="s_3FE45715"> </span></p><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_3FE45715">Approximately 50 to 100 cm of moist snow are between the surface and a few prominent melt-freeze crusts that were buried mid-December, these crust layers have been reported to be bonding well to the mid-pack and are trending towards dormancy.</span></p><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_3FE45715">The snowpack depth at 1000 m is about 150 cm and many early season hazards are still present.</span></p>