Wind Slabs
- Hochgebirge
- Waldgrenze
- Unterhalb der Waldgrenze
- Wahrscheinlichkeit
- Unlikely
- Größe
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Pockets of wind-drifted snow 6-18" thick can be found on all aspects at the upper elevations. In my field day yesterday in the Salt Lake mountains, I was finding these recent wind drifts to be unreactive to stability tests and one observer near Ben Lomond reported finding a few thin wind slabs that "lacked energy. But with such widespread wind-drifting from Wednesday, I'm giving recent wind drifts another day to settle out. For now, follow the advice of forecasters Trent Meisenheimer and Mark Staples: avoid the wind and you avoid the avalanche problem: