Small soft slab slabs sluffing on surface hoar in the slack country

Quick report

rossgoski · Feb 12, 2026 · Central Selkirk

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Quick report

Riding Quality
good

A couple of small natural and skier controlled avalanches. All aspects up to size 1.5, touchy but only about 15cm deep.

Snowpack

Nth asp, 2100m CTM RP dwn 30cm, Feb 7 interface CTH down 60, Jan 26th failed below the crust, no SH obs

Avalanche

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?