{"blocks":[{"key":"abg3n","text":"20-40 cm of rapidly settling snow now typically overlies the January 30 interface which consists of a melt-freeze crust at lower elevations and on solar aspects extending into the alpine, surface hoar in wind-sheltered areas at and below treeline, and small facets in some areas. With the recent warming, the surface snow has settled into a cohesive slab over the weak layer and a new surface crust will likely form as temperatures drop.  ","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"d4b","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"bcufn","text":"Periods of strong wind over the weekend, mainly from the southwest through northwest, have formed reactive wind slabs in exposed terrain at higher elevations. Ongoing wind on Monday will likely continue to develop reactive wind slabs where there is still loose snow available for transport. ","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 appears to have woken up with the weekend warming and at least two avalanches likely involved this layer.","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"}}}}