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</style><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_3FE45715">On Sunday, a skier triggered a size 1 storm slab on a northeast aspect. The terrain was described as steep and rocky, and the slab was 50 cm thick. Sluffing was also observed from steep terrain features. On Saturday, natural avalanches up to size 2.5 were observed on a variety of aspects with crowns up to 45cm in depth. Explosives triggered avalanches and cornice failures up to size 2.5 on a variety of aspects with crowns averaging 20 to 40cm in depth. Sadly, there was an avalanche fatality west of Whistler near Gin Peak/Hanging Lake on Saturday. This avalanche occurred on a west-facing feature at treeline, size is estimated to be 2 to 2.5, approximately 80 m wide with a 100 cm crown. </span><a id='GoToAdded' href="http://www.avalanche.ca/map?panel=fatal-accident%2Ffatality-hanging_lake-2017-03-04" target="_blank"><span class="s_B5813F7D">Click here for more details.</span></a><span class="s_AA239A9B" /></p><p class="p_CC664AAA"><span class="s_3FE45715">On Tuesday, strong southwest wind is expected to develop touchy new wind slabs and thicker old wind slabs may also still be reactive. The weak layers from February are still a major concern and persistent slab avalanches remain possible. It may still be possible for a person to directly trigger a persistent slab or a smaller avalanche could step down. </span><span class="s_3FE45715">We are entering a low probability, high consequence scenario for very large persistent slab avalanches.</span><span class="s_3FE45715" /></p>