Persistent Slabs
- Alta quota
- Limite del bosco
- Sotto il limite del bosco
- Probabilità
- Possible
- Dimensione
- 3
You probably won't experience any collapsing or "whumpfing" of the snowpack underneath you at this time. You most likely won't see any recent avalanches. These two clues are the biggest indicators of unstable snow and the snowpack is, no doubt, settling and stabilizing. For the moment.
But the buried weak faceted snow at the base of the snowpack remains the focus. It should be quite obvious that the weak snow is there. You'll probably notice that you can easily "trench" your machine to the ground in many locations still. Step off your machine or skis and you will punch through deep into the pack in lots of areas. These are the big clues pointing to weak snow right now.
What most likely will happen is that the weak layers will go "dormant" and be non-reactive as more time goes by. But will they awaken again and become really dangerous? That will depend on what the weather delivers.
We are not out of the woods. Things are precarious and I'm holding my cards tight.
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