VIDEO: Huge Avalanche Triggered by Crews Near Glacier National Park

Sure makes the Trans Canada Highway look small, doesn’t it? Avalanche control work near the Lanark Snowshed today. #BCHwy1 pic.twitter.com/FTKV1qSl4D

— BC Transportation (@TranBC) February 5, 2019

After Rogers Pass was pummelled with snow over the weekend, crews blasted areas of Highway 1 Tuesday, bringing down a large avalanche.

Highway 1 was closed between Canyon Hot Springs and the western border of Glacier National Park between 10 am and noon while bombing from a helicopter was used to knock down heavy layers of snow.

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BC’s Ministry of Transportation posted a video to Twitter of one of the avalanches triggered Tuesday, near the Lanark snowshed. The snowshed is near the western border of Glacier National Park.

“Sure makes the Trans-Canada Highway look small, doesn’t it?” the ministry posted.

Canadian Armed Forces members have been conducting avalanche control in the area since 1961.