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</style><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_3FE45715">See this </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FilGUG0Fk4" target="_blank"><span class="s_B5813F7D">great video</span></a><span class="s_3FE45715"> from our South Rockies field team that does an awesome job of summarizing the current state of the snowpack.</span></p><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_3FE45715">The region has picked up 60 - 100cm of storm snow that fell in the last week. Winds have been out of the SW through NW which has created fresh wind slabs in alpine and treeline lee terrain. </span></p><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_3FE45715">Around 70 cm of settling storm snow rests on a graupel layer that can be found in much of the region. This makes for around 90 cm on top of the mid march crust at this point. This crust exists on all aspects below 2000m and on solar aspects in the high alpine. North of Sparwood and in the Crowsnest Pass area, the buried crust seems more specific to previously sun-exposed slopes. </span></p><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_AA239A9B">The deep facet/crust persistent weakness buried at the beginning of February (now down up to 150cm) seems unlikely to trigger in areas where the hard, supportive exists. No matter where you are in the region, this weakness should stay on your radar as any activity at this interface would be large and destructive. Possible triggers include a large cornice fall, a large input in a thin snowpack area or solar warming.</span></p><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_AA239A9B">Cornices have also become large and unstable.</span></p>