{"blocks":[{"key":"abg3n","text":"Up to 50 cm of settling snow now overlies the January 30 interface which consists of a melt-freeze crust at lower elevations and on solar aspects extending into the alpine, widespread surface hoar in sheltered areas at and below treeline, and small facets in some areas. Prior to the weekend warming, the surface storm snow was cold and mainly unconsolidated, and had not formed a slab in most places except for where it was wind loaded. With warming and sun this weekend, rapid settlement is possible and this may result in the formation of a more widespread reactive slab over the weak interface. ","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"bgsls","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"4j72","text":"Periods of strong wind over the past week has formed reactive wind slabs in exposed terrain at higher elevations and ongoing wind on Friday and Saturday, mainly from the southwest through northwest, has likely continued to develop wind slabs. ","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"442h7","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"43gge","text":"The widespread January 18 rain crust is now around 50-70 cm deep with weak faceted snow above. This layer has not produced any recent avalanche activity but will get tested this weekend with warming and sun.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"816rb","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"8h641","text":"The early December crust/facet persistent weak layer is now 100-200 cm deep. This layer produced numerous large avalanches in January but is now considered dormant. See this forecaster blog on how to manage this layer as it may come into play again later this season. ","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[{"offset":165,"length":24,"key":0}],"data":{}}],"entityMap":{"0":{"type":"LINK","mutability":"MUTABLE","data":{"href":"https://avalanche.ca/blogs/the-crust-that-never-dies","target":"_blank","url":"https://avalanche.ca/blogs/the-crust-that-never-dies"}}}}