Wind Slabs
- Alpine
- Treeline
- Below treeline
- Likelihood
- Likely
- Size
- 1
Avalanche activity large enough to bury or injure a person will remain unlikely until it starts to snow tonight. Some isolated areas of unstable snow may still linger in wind-exposed terrain around the forecast area in the form of small, firm, and difficult-to-trigger wind slabs. Even though avalanches remain unlikely today, continue to practice responsible backcountry travel by creating good safety margins, stopping to talk to your partners, traveling through avalanche terrain one at a time, regrouping out of avalanche terrain, and constantly reassessing terrain and conditions.
Choosing to avoid areas with lingering firm wind slabs where unlikely but not impossible instabilities could exist and planning to recreate on the less exposed slopes represents one way to create a great safety margin that would also lead to finding the remaining areas of soft surface snow.
Once the storm arrives this evening, the avalanche danger will increase quickly as new fragile wind slabs become larger and more widespread during the night.
