On 27/08/2013 Damo666 wrote:
>On 27/08/2013 bw wrote:
>>Glide cracks?
>>
>>http://www.fsavalanche.org/encyclopedia/glide.htm
>
>Sort of, but in the case of Blue Lake the whole snow/ice sheet that you
>see cracked is probably sliding on the ground (tussock, rock, dirt) rather
>than on a snow slope beneath the slab.
>
Can be either or as far as i know, to be a glide crack. Stretched by gravity and cracks as opposed to fracturing violently. |