Persistent Slabs
N
NE
E
SE
S
SW
W
NW
- Alta montaña
- Límite del bosque
- Bajo el límite del bosque
- Probabilidad
- Unlikely
- Tamaño
- 3
The snowpack continues to stabilize and the avalanche danger is decreasing as the days go on. There is still weak snow near the base of the snowpack from December. This Persistent Weak Layer is becoming dormant meaning that it is not reactive. It's not gone but probably won't produce avalanches unless we get another significant load of new snow.
I found myself in an area where the snowpack was quite shallow on Monday. It was only about 3' total snow depth. I trenched my sled down to the old sugar. While I was getting it unstuck, my boots were punching through into the old sugar. You want to avoid being on any steep slopes in terrain like this where the snowpack is really shallow.