{"blocks":[{"key":"dffdd","text":"Flurries over the past few days have given us 10-20 cm of soft snow above old hard surfaces. There may some some new wind slabs on northeast lee features. The most predominant layer underneath the new snow is older wind slabs that formed during a strong northeast wind event last week. Time and warm temperatures are reducing the sensitivity of these older wind slabs to human triggering, but the slabs rest on facets formed during the cold snap, so these wind slabs may persist longer than we're accustomed to.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"7afo5","text":"The upper snowpack continues to settle over another weak layer buried 50-80 cm deep (from January 24). This persistent weak layer may present as facets or a crust.  Recent test results show that this weak layer is gaining strength.    ","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[{"offset":145,"length":6,"key":0}],"data":{}},{"key":"k3lq","text":"We have also been tracking some layers in the mid and lower snowpack including a surface hoar interface buried 70-120 cm deep and a crust from early December that is surrounded by weak faceted grains .These appear to have gone dormant for the time being.  A sudden warm up in the form of a Pineapple Express (Atmospheric River), or a large load in a shallow rocky start zone may be able to wake them up.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[{"offset":375,"length":3,"style":"ITALIC"}],"entityRanges":[{"offset":309,"length":17,"key":1},{"offset":350,"length":24,"key":2}],"data":{}}],"entityMap":{"0":{"type":"LINK","mutability":"MUTABLE","data":{"href":"https://www.avalanche.ca/glossary?q=crust#faceted-snow","target":"_blank","url":"https://www.avalanche.ca/glossary?q=crust#faceted-snow"}},"1":{"type":"LINK","mutability":"MUTABLE","data":{"url":"https://www.avalanche.ca/glossary/?q=pineapple#atmospheric-river"}},"2":{"type":"LINK","mutability":"MUTABLE","data":{"url":"https://www.avalanche.ca/glossary#shallow-rocky-start-zone"}}}}