Wind Slabs
N
NE
E
SE
S
SW
W
NW
- Hochgebirge
- Waldgrenze
- Unterhalb der Waldgrenze
- Wahrscheinlichkeit
- Possible
- Größe
- 1–1.5
You can trigger a slab avalanche where you encounter freshly wind-drifted snow at upper elevations. Strong southwest winds will drift snow onto northerly and easterly-facing slopes, especially below corniced ridgelines and along the sides of cross-loaded gullies. If you encounter cracking or find hollow-feeling drifts, move around these features to wind-sheltered or lower-angle slopes.