{"blocks":[{"key":"amji","text":"Cold weather has left 20-40 cm of low density snow on the surface. There is potential for northerly winds to begin transporting this snow into wind slabs, perhaps in unusual cross-loading or reverse-loading patterns. This low density snow sits above a mostly settled and bonded snowpack with a few crusts in the top 100 cm.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[{"offset":174,"length":13,"key":0},{"offset":191,"length":15,"key":1}],"data":{}},{"key":"a5ia2","text":"In the north of the region, a concerning layer of facets (sugary snow) can be found down 100-200 cm over a crust that formed in early December. This layer is transitioning from stubborn to unreactive as the settling snow above makes it harder to trigger. This problem is particularly hard to predict and tricky to manage. Get more details and photos in our forecaster blog.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[{"offset":50,"length":6,"key":2},{"offset":357,"length":15,"key":3}],"data":{}},{"key":"bjk85","text":"For a more detailed description of snowpack layers, watch the snowpack summary video produced by North Shore Rescue on Dec 24.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[{"offset":62,"length":22,"key":4}],"data":{}}],"entityMap":{"0":{"type":"LINK","mutability":"MUTABLE","data":{"href":"https://www.avalanche.ca/glossary#cross-loading","target":"_blank","url":"https://www.avalanche.ca/glossary#cross-loading"}},"1":{"type":"LINK","mutability":"MUTABLE","data":{"href":"https://www.avalanche.ca/glossary#reverse-loading","target":"_blank","url":"https://www.avalanche.ca/glossary#reverse-loading"}},"2":{"type":"LINK","mutability":"MUTABLE","data":{"url":"https://www.avalanche.ca/glossary#faceted-snow"}},"3":{"type":"LINK","mutability":"MUTABLE","data":{"href":"https://www.avalanche.ca/blogs/the-last-straw","target":"_blank","url":"https://www.avalanche.ca/blogs/the-last-straw"}},"4":{"type":"LINK","mutability":"MUTABLE","data":{"url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv-3x_tgiyk"}}}}