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Glossary Index

Avalanche Institute

 

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Soft Slab

Also: Soft Slab Avalanche

A slab-group of low density snow often deposited under no wind or light-wind conditions.

The snow in a soft-slab avalanche pulverizes immediately after avalanche initiation.

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