Persistent Slabs
- Alta montaña
- Límite del bosque
- Bajo el límite del bosque
- Probabilidad
- Very Likely
- Tamaño
- 3
We will be dealing with the old buried faceted Persistent Weak Layer for a while still. There were reports of widespread collapsing in the Fairview/Electric Lake zones on Sunday. Check out Chris Magerls excellent account of what he found on Sunday as far as avalanche and riding conditions: DETAILS HERE
Things are going to get a bit deceptive with this problem. You may not see obvious signs of danger like recent avalanches or plumes coming off the peaks and loading slopes below. You might not even experience collapsing or whumpfing of the snowpack underneath you. But I assure you that the weak layers of snow still exist and can be lethal.
Continue to avoid all steep slopes in the mid and upper elevations that face west, north and east. I would even be leary of high elevation southeast facing slopes.