{"blocks":[{"key":"dv31","text":"Ongoing elevated winds from the east and northeast have been redistributing loose snow into reactive new wind slabs in the lee of exposed terrain features at higher elevations.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"cmq3e","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"a8il8","text":"The snow surface otherwise is composed of up to 15 cm of low density snow in shaded, sheltered areas  (now likely a bit more scarce), along with more widespread wind-affected surfaces, including older wind slabs that have been gradually losing cohesion and reactivity under prolonged cold temperatures. On solar aspects, a thin recent sun crust may be found on or right near the surface or beneath recently wind transported snow, potentially contributing to the reactivity of new slabs on sun-exposed aspects.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"7o6te","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"frisf","text":"Below these variable surface conditions, 50-100 cm of settled storm snow sits on a persistent weak layer from late January that consists of facets at upper elevations, surface hoar in sheltered areas, a melt-freeze crust below 1900 m, and a sun crust on south-facing slopes. There could be more than 100 cm on this layer in wind loaded areas. Although this structure is a suspect, we have no recent reports of avalanches failing at this interface within the region. Details of the failure planes involved in two recent avalanches are still pending.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[{"offset":140,"length":6,"key":0},{"offset":168,"length":12,"key":1}],"data":{}},{"key":"4a6li","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"7h7b0","text":"A crust from early December, currently considered dormant, may be found around 200+ cm deep in the snowpack.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}}],"entityMap":{"0":{"type":"LINK","mutability":"MUTABLE","data":{"url":"https://www.avalanche.ca/glossary?q=crust#faceted-snow"}},"1":{"type":"LINK","mutability":"MUTABLE","data":{"url":"https://www.avalanche.ca/glossary?q=persistent+weak+layer#surface-hoar"}}}}