Graie Alps

New snow and wind slabs require caution. The avalanche prone locations are covered with new snow and are therefore difficult to recognise.

New snow and wind slabs require caution. The avalanche prone locations are covered with new snow and are therefore difficult to recognise.

Wind slabs can as before be released, even by small loads in isolated cases and reach medium size. This applies especially in gullies and bowls, and behind abrupt changes in the terrain in particular above the tree line, and on very steep shady slopes. Here avalanches can be released in deep layers of the snowpack and reach large size in isolated cases.

In some places new snow and wind slabs are lying on a hard crust. Faceted weak layers exist deeper in the old snowpack above approximately 2400 m.