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"wind slab" is a particularly fragile brittle structure—heavily loaded, poorly bonded. even on a clear day, wind can quickly shift snow-load to the snow pack. this can occur two ways, by top-loading, where wind deposits snow parallel to the fall-line, or through cross-loading, which occurs when the wind
deposits snow perpendicular to the fall-line of a slope. when wind blows over the top of a mountain, the leeward, or downwind, side of the mountain experiences top-loading. when the wind blows over a ridge that leads up the mountain for example, the leeward side of the ridge experiences cross-loading...
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