Border Pennine Alps

The wind slabs are mostly easy to recognise and to be assessed critically.

In some cases the wind slabs have bonded still only poorly with the old snowpack. Large-grained weak layers exist in the bottom section of the snowpack on shady slopes, especially on steep slopes above approximately 2500 m. Adjacent to ridgelines and in pass areas as well as in high Alpine regions snow depths vary greatly, depending on the infuence of the wind.

The wind slabs are mostly easy to recognise and to be assessed critically.

As a consequence of new snow and a moderate to strong wind from northwesterly directions, wind slabs formed in the last few days. These are to be found especially adjacent to ridgelines and in gullies and bowls and generally at high altitudes. The wind slabs can be released by a single winter sport participant in particular on north, east and southeast facing slopes. Caution is to be exercised in particular on wind-loaded slopes along the border with Switzerland. Avalanches can also be triggered in the old snowpack and reach large size in isolated cases, in particular on shady slopes at elevated altitudes.