{"blocks":[{"key":"bjba0","text":"This week's new snow accompanied by strong southwest winds have created wind slabs in the alpine and exposed areas at treeline. These new wind slabs will overlie older wind slabs from earlier in the week, amongst a variety of hard, wind effected surfaces. ","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"1nvdn","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"boriv","text":"Below 1400m, a thin rain crust exists below this week's new snow. There have been reports of faceting around this crust with previous cold temperatures. A spotty surface hoar layer has been reported down ~100cm in the alpine and treeline. ","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[{"offset":162,"length":12,"key":0}],"data":{}},{"key":"4e3kd","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"fknh5","text":"An early season crust can be found near the base of the snowpack. It has shown reactivity in the past week with large loads (explosives and cornice), creating large avalanches. We don't know how widespread this problem may be, but we are definitely keeping an eye on it, and would be avoiding large features and areas with thin to thick snowpack transitions.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[{"offset":323,"length":13,"key":1}],"data":{}},{"key":"3qg9j","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"e16no","text":"Snowpack depth at treeline ranges from 150-200 cm, with higher values in the western part of the region, tapering to the east.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}}],"entityMap":{"0":{"type":"LINK","mutability":"MUTABLE","data":{"url":"https://www.avalanche.ca/glossary#surface-hoar"}},"1":{"type":"LINK","mutability":"MUTABLE","data":{"url":"https://www.avalanche.ca/glossary#shallow-rocky-start-zone"}}}}