Persistent Slabs
- Alpin
- Limite forestière
- Sous la limite forestière
- Probabilité
- Very Likely
- Taille
- 3
I continue to experience lots of collapsing (whoomping sounds) while traveling around on skis. This is a Persistent Weak Layer of sugary faceted snow that is buried and is failing when disturbed by my weight. I have been on low angle slopes when this occurs but if I were on steeper slopes, they would avalanche. This scenario is going to continue to be a problem for us over the next few weeks as more storms roll through.