Suprise slab bonanza

As you can also read in TLABERGE's MIN, lots of activity was witnessed that day. Very variable wind load conditions (0-40cm), just fresh from the night before, created very unstable wind slabs. One was triggered on the way up on the preestablished skintrack, carying 2 skiers for 5m, but with a crack propagating 30m each way, on a convex break. The other ones that my friend and I trigerred that day were on the slopes climber's right of the lateral moraine, above the Hermit slidepath. There, every terrain feature was reactive, and any slope close or above to 25° released directly or remotely. The biggest had a crown extending 50m, a thickness of 30cm and ran for 100m to stop in a depression. All that to say that westerly slopes, between 2100-2600m under the Swiss glacier have considerable wind slab problem, to be mindful of for the upcoming days with the fresh snow on top. Be safe o7

Throughout the day, we realeased 5 wind slabs in different configurations, but around the same altitude (2500-2100m). Report for the biggest one released that partially buried a skier + ate a ski. :/

Sustained winds (30kmh+) thoughout the valley. All of the climb up to Hermit Meadows was sheltered. Westerly gusts picked up as we were at the toe of the slope leading to Swiss Glacier. Lots of snow displacement, reaching 40cm depth in some places, all new snow.

Decently consolidated column, no crust/weak layer at 2500m on W aspect. Wind load on W/SW aspects, especially on any terrain features prone to loading (convexities). Very reactive, propagating (50m+ obsserved), prone to remote trigers.