Wind Slabs
- Alta quota
- Limite del bosco
- Sotto il limite del bosco
- Probabilità
- Unlikely
- Dimensione
- 1
People might trigger small avalanches of wind-drifted snow where wind slabs recently formed on preexisting weak surface snow in exposed upper-elevation terrain.
- Avoid and stay out from under stiffer pockets of recently drifted snow on steep slopes. (wind slab avalanches might be triggered remotely)
- Wind slabs may have formed or have been cross-loaded in and around terrain features like mid-slope roll-overs, gullies, under cliff bands, or sub-ridges.
- Suspect wind slabs are often chalky, rounded, and smooth, and they can sound hollow, like a drum. Shooting cracks and whumpfs obviously indicate instability.