{"blocks":[{"key":"d73va","text":"40-60 cm of new snow is expected to accumulate over the region by the end of the day on Saturday. This will bury recent wind slabs and wind-affected surfaces in exposed areas at all elevations and soft, low density snow in sheltered areas. The new snow will add to just over a meter of storm snow that has fallen in the last week.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"e27jj","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"9srt5","text":"Professionals in the region are continuing to track a pair of weak surface hoar layers from mid and late December. Currently 70 to 160 cm below the snow surface, these layers are giving increasingly stubborn results in snowpack tests but may remain sensitive to human triggering in places where the snowpack goes from thick to thin, steep unsupported slopes, and around sheltered shallow, rocky start zones.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"7am2q","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"bke66","text":"The beginning of the season had less precipitation than usual, which led to a layer of sugary faceted grains as well as a hard melt-freeze crust near the base of the snowpack. In a more seasonally normal winter we wouldn't be thinking about this interface, but it has produced large, destructive natural avalanches as recently as January 11th. ","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"aa6s8","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"12sbs","text":"Concern for very large avalanches releasing over this weak basal layer will increase as loading from new snow, wind, and rising temperatures strain the snowpack and cause avalanche activity in surface layers.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}}],"entityMap":{}}