Wind Slabs
N
NE
E
SE
S
SW
W
NW
- Alta montaña
- Límite del bosque
- Bajo el límite del bosque
- Probabilidad
- Likely
- Tamaño
- 1–1.5
You could trigger an avalanche in wind-drifted snow at upper elevations. Avoid deeper areas of drifted snow on easterly slopes below ridgelines or in gullies and couloirs. Wind-drifted snow can look rounded, pillowy, or lens-shaped. Avalanches will be larger in cross-loaded terrain features and in areas that received more than six inches of new snow on Monday. Cracking and collapsing in the new snow are signs of instability and a good indicator to move to wind-sheltered lower-angle slopes.