Donderdag 8 februari 2007
Weerbericht voor die dag: It has been a cold day with snow showers and a strong South-Easterly wind. The lying fresh snow of previous days has been transported by the wind on to lee aspects and has formed weakly bonded windslab accumulations on mainly Westerly to Northerly aspects above 700 metres. Field tests on a Westerly aspect at 1100 metres produced very easy failures in the snowpack. The avalanche hazard is Considerable (Category 3). COMMENT: Very cold but good and wintry. Continue reading