Both victims had to be airlifted to hospital after smashing against trees and suffering various injuries while being swept along by the snow.
The Avalanche Canada website says both events happened Saturday and each one involved a fully buried skier who was saved because of the quick work of others in their group.
Slabs, which are layers of stiff, wind-deposited snow, have been seen at all elevations and on all aspects of coastal mountains and the website says, when triggered, they can slice down to the weakest part of the snowpack, causing large avalanches. Ryan Buhler, a forecast program supervisor with Avalanche Canada said last week that the weak layers of the snowpack are so deep that clues of instability are hard to spot, and he warned spring weather will make conditions even less stable.
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