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
Recent snow and northerly wind increase your chances of triggering avalanches in wind-drifted snow above treeline. The most dangerous places are where you find 8" or more of cohesive drifted snow forming a slab on steep alpine slopes. Look for and avoid fresh and firm lens-shaped drifts below ridgelines and in gullies.
Safer travel can be found at lower elevations out of the wind.