Cornices
- Alta quota
- Limite del bosco
- Sotto il limite del bosco
- Probabilità
- Unlikely
- Dimensione
- 1
Even though the weather has remained relatively static over the last few days, the snowpack continues to change. Data and observations show that the most recent snow continues to settle and consolidate. It also indicates that the sugary snow layers (facets) in the bottom of the snowpack on the NW-N-NE aspects remain weak. While human-triggered avalanches involving this weak layer remain unlikely, it could become problematic during the next storm or sooner if the trend of consolidating snow in the upper half of the snowpack and weakening snow in the lower snowpack continues. In most areas the snowpack remains shallow enough that numerous exposed or barely covered rocks, stumps, logs, and other obstacles/anchors poke through this layer.
A few small isolated wind slabs lurking in complex or extreme terrain or on unsupported slopes represent the other unlikely, isolated, and small but not impossible issue. These areas could include those tempting filled-in looking couliors or hanging snowfields with cliffs below them. Keep in mind that after the recent winds, if a near treeline or above treeline area looks nicely filled in, wind slabs likely exist in that area.