Wind Slabs
N
NE
E
SE
S
SW
W
NW
- Alta montaña
- Límite del bosque
- Bajo el límite del bosque
- Probabilidad
- Possible
- Tamaño
- 1–1.5
Strong wind on Tuesday built thin slabs of wind-drifted snow above treeline. You might trigger a slab avalanche on northerly or easterly-facing slopes that breaks up to a foot deep. Choose safer options in wind-sheltered terrain where you find no freshly buried layers of stiffer wind-drifted snow.