Wind Slabs
- Alta quota
- Limite del bosco
- Sotto il limite del bosco
- Probabilità
- Likely
- Dimensione
- 3
The obvious concern is triggering a recent drift or slab of snow that formed during the strong wind event. It's unclear how sensitive these will be today. What we do know is that there was a tremendous amount of snow being drifted and fresh drifts are the most sensitive during and directly after they form. You will want to avoid any steep slope where the wind has deposited snow.
The good thing about wind drifted snow is that it often stabilizes within a day or two. My strategy today is to go out and hit as many test slopes (small steep terrain features with no consequences if they crack out) that have wind drifted snow on them to get a feel for how sensitive things are. I'll be trying to make them fail. I'll be looking for recent avalanches and taking note what type of terrain they occurred on. I'll do the same thing on Thursday and hopefully see signs of stabilization.
Even if things don't seem very sensitive today, I'll still be avoiding big steep terrain because I know that there was an incredible amount of wind drifting and those drifts may be unpredictable.
