Wind slab
- Above 1,800 m
- Dimensione
- 2
Stability: fair · Frequency: some
Snowdrifts more prone to triggering at high altitudes
Stability: fair · Frequency: some
Stability: very poor · Frequency: few
Snowdrifts more prone to triggering at high altitudes
Avalanche danger 1800m is considerable, below that altitude danger is low. Main problem: snowdrift accumulations. These can trigger a medium-sized avalanche by one sole skier/snowboarder. Avalanche prone locations occur in steep ridgeline terrain on N/E/SE facing slopes and in wind-loaded gulles and bowls. Size and frequency of danger zones tend to increase with ascending altitude and during the course of the day. In addition, wet snow is a problem, it can trigger naturally on very steep slopes as a loose-snow avalanche on smooth grassy slopes and over rock plates. Possibility of medium-sized glide-snow avalanches on steep smooth grass-covered slopes in all aspects, releases mostly small, but occasionally medium-sized.
The snowpack is superficially moist, depending on the intensity of rainfall, and it is forfeiting firmness. Fresh snowdrifts are accumulating above the snowfall level. Weak layers inside the old snowpack have largely consolidated at high altitudes, are triggerable only in isolated cases. The snowpack base is moist-to-wet down to the ground. Gliding snow is possible.
Snowdrifts consolidate due to higher temperatures. Danger of dry-snow avalanches to diminish somewhat.
Bulletin data: Avalanche Warning Service Bavaria (CC BY 4.0)