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</style><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_AA239A9B">We had heavy wet snow (or rain up to 2000m in places) and strong to extreme southerly winds during the weekend's storm. Temperatures also warmed up significantly. The end result: Widespread storm slabs and wind slabs at treeline and above, with significant cornice growth as well.</span></p><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_AA239A9B">The most recent storm snow (totals of 30-50cm) sits on older windslabs (or soft slabs) at treeline and above. Below 1800m, the new snow (with a breakable surface crust) sits on a melt-freeze crust from rain events last weekend. Reports so far are that the new snow is bonding well to the old crust, but that the storm snow instabilities (down 25 and 45cm) are showing some reactivity to rider traffic.</span></p><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_AA239A9B">Approximately 100-140 cm below the surface you may find the late-February persistent weakness / crust interface. This layer has woken up from time to time as smaller avalanches still have to potential to 'step down' and trigger this layer.</span></p><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_AA239A9B">The deep mid-December facet layer (and November raincrust) still linger at the bottom of the snowpack and are the suspected culprit (running to ground/glacier) in Glacier National Park avalanches. </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ParksMountainSafety/photos/a.1122932427756745.1073741905.145133538869977/1250972184952768/?type=3&amp;theater" target="_blank"><span class="s_9255B882">See here for one spooky picture</span></a><span class="s_AA239A9B">. </span><a id='GoToAdded' href="http://data.avalanche.ca/Images/20170320%20N%20Face%20Mt%20Smart.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="s_9255B882">See here for another.</span></a><span class="s_AA239A9B"> </span></p><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_AA239A9B"> </span></p>