Adamello

Wind slabs represent the main danger. The wind slabs are to be found in particular adjacent to ridgelines and in gullies and bowls and generally at high altitudes.

Wind slabs represent the main danger. The wind slabs are to be found in particular adjacent to ridgelines and in gullies and bowls and generally at high altitudes.

The wind slabs are mostly easy to recognise but to be assessed critically. Weak layers in the old snowpack represent the main danger. In very isolated cases the avalanches are medium-sized and can be released in isolated cases by a single winter sport participant, caution is to be exercised in particular on very steep shady slopes above approximately 2400 m, and on wind-loaded slopes.

The snowpack remains subject to considerable local variations above approximately 2200 m. The wind slabs are lying on top of a weakly bonded old snowpack on shady slopes at elevated altitudes. Faceted weak layers exist in the bottom section of the old snowpack in shady places that are protected from the wind. At low and intermediate altitudes thus far only a little snow is lying. The snowpack is wet, especially on sunny slopes especially below approximately 2000 m.