{"blocks":[{"key":"c99h0","text":"A natural avalanche cycle to size 2 occurred overnight Thurs-Fri with accumulating snowfall and wind. On Friday morning, explosives easily triggered storm slabs to size 2.5.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"a14jb","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"ds6la","text":"On Wednesday, wind slabs were reactive to explosives up to size 2 in the west of the region. On Monday and Tuesday, storm slab avalanches were reactive naturally and to skier and explosive triggers, up to size 2.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"f6bsf","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"16fks","text":"There has been an alarming pattern of large, persistent slab avalanches being consistently reported over the past two weeks. Almost all of these avalanches ran on the early December weak layer. Deeply buried persistent problems like these don't go away overnight, and it remains a serious concern. Additional loading by the weight of new snow will further stress this weakness and may result in a resurgence of reactivity.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[{"offset":123,"length":2,"style":"BOLD"}],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"7b17i","text":"On Tuesday, explosive control work near Rossland produced a size 2.5 persistent slab avalanche on a layer of surface hoar from late December. ","type":"unordered-list-item","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"ehu5m","text":"On Monday in the neighboring South Columbia region, a natural size 2.5 persistent slab avalanche was reported on a NE aspect at 2200 m failing 80 cm deep on the early December layer.","type":"unordered-list-item","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"ffd5r","text":"A few notables from last week feature in our latest blog Photos of recent persistent slab avalanches in the southern interior. ","type":"unordered-list-item","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[{"offset":57,"length":69,"key":0}],"data":{}}],"entityMap":{"0":{"type":"LINK","mutability":"MUTABLE","data":{"url":"https://avalanche.ca/blogs/persistent-slab-avalanches-in-southern-interior"}}}}