{"blocks":[{"key":"bcd0f","text":"Recent avalanche activity in the Purcells has been simultaneously impressive and terrifying. Explosive control work and other large triggers have consistently produced large persistent slab avalanches to size 3 (very large!) and larger on all aspects in alpine terrain. ","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"dvpbd","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"arc66","text":"A couple of recent MIN reports describe a very large (size 3) deep persistent slab on a well-trafficked slope remote triggered by one or more snowmobiles in the Lang Creek area on Sunday. An adjacent second avalanche may have been triggered sympathetically by the first. On Monday another large (size 2) deep persistent slab was observed just below Gorman Lake. Its trigger is unknown.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[{"offset":23,"length":7,"key":0},{"offset":110,"length":16,"key":1},{"offset":329,"length":9,"key":2}],"data":{}},{"key":"fmg8a","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"1etb1","text":"Common characteristics of recent avalanches in the region include wide propagation, remote triggers and full depth avalanches scouring away the snowpack to ground.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"etrs6","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"abhbo","text":"Looking forward, concern for very large deep persistent slab releases has been increasing in line with new snow accumulation, which is forecast to continue through Wednesday night. Not only does the new snow represent a problematic new load on our weak snowpack, but smaller storm slab or wind slab releases may begin to act as a trigger for very large avalanches.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}}],"entityMap":{"0":{"type":"LINK","mutability":"MUTABLE","data":{"url":"https://www.avalanche.ca/mountain-information-network/submissions/7c6a7974-98af-4fb2-9b61-b6ded8ebb8c1"}},"1":{"type":"LINK","mutability":"MUTABLE","data":{"url":"https://www.avalanche.ca/glossary#remote-triggered-avalanches-are-avalanches-that-occur"}},"2":{"type":"LINK","mutability":"MUTABLE","data":{"url":"https://www.avalanche.ca/mountain-information-network/submissions/a28218a0-f69a-492d-9975-9cc494c62950"}}}}