Small soft slab slabs sluffing on surface hoar in the slack country
Feb 12th, 2026 11:30 AM
rossgoski
Central Selkirk
Details
Type
quick
Coordinates
50.944107, -118.075100
Quick Observation
A couple of small natural and skier controlled avalanches. All aspects up to size 1.5, touchy but only about 15cm deep.
Avalanche Information
Avalanches up to size 1.5 initiating as soft slabs then behaving as loose dry sluffs. Touchy to trigger and moving fast. Failing on a suface hoar layer down ~15cm, buried maybe on Feb 10th?
Snowpack
Nth asp, 2100m
CTM RP dwn 30cm, Feb 7 interface
CTH down 60, Jan 26th failed below the crust, no SH obs
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