Persistent Slabs
- Alta quota
- Limite del bosco
- Sotto il limite del bosco
- Probabilità
- Almost Certain
- Dimensione
- 4
The weak snow near the ground is now buried with numerous layers of newer snow. This weak foundation will continue to collapse and cause avalanches.
The natural avalanche cycle on Wednesday was fairly widespread across the range but my opinion is that there were not a huge amount of avalanches. That means that many MANY slopes are holding the new load that sits on the incredibly weak base layers of loose sugar. These slopes are poised to avalanche. Don't screw around with them.
At this point in the season, there is a good chance that basal layers of faceted snow will never completely stabilize and we may be dealing with it the entire winter.