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</style><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_3FE45715">Thursday there were reports from northern parts of the region of a widespread natural avalanche cycle triggered by strong to extreme wind loading event in the alpine. As well as an icefall triggered size 2.5 slab avalanche that failed on the mid-March interface, northwest of Meziadin Lake.</span></p><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_3FE45715">Wednesday a natural avalanche cycle up to size 1.5 was reported on wind affected features, as well as skier triggered storm snow releases up to size 1. A natural cornice failure that released a size 1.5 slab was also reported from an east aspect in the Shames area. </span><a id='GoToAdded' href="http://www.avalanche.ca/mountain-information-network/submissions/1d19b70e-98cb-47e6-aa34-3f780aedb1ff" target="_blank"><span class="s_B5813F7D">Read MIN report here.</span></a><span class="s_AA239A9B" /></p><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_3FE45715">On Tuesday, there was a size 2 natural wind slab avalanche reported from a north aspect alpine slope. There were also several small (size 1), thin soft slab avalanches on recently wind-loaded features. A large (size 3) glide avalanche was reported from a N-NW slope below treeline. Additionally, steep south aspect slopes released loose wet avalanches in the afternoon.</span></p><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_3FE45715">Last week, large persistent slab avalanches were reported on east to northeast aspects at all elevations, failing on the early-March and mid-March layers. There have been no reports of avalanches on these layers so far this week.</span></p>