Steepness is the overriding consideration. Very hard to trigger this slope if that's all I'm concerned about.
Only slush avalanches can be expected at this inclination.
Its not steep, the only reason to even consider it
If I assessed this slope as very favourable than I wasn't thinking about the importance of terrain characteristics at all.
OOPs - going too fast and not reading carefully enough. If I could go back I would reduce to favourable
should be easily controllable with ski cutting
Having no field observations make these answers difficult.
info such as how easily the terrain trap is avoided would help.
sunlight is a tough one - time of season, and day, make huge differences. Rating could range from 1 to 4.
The exposure to sunlight in these questions is obviously more of a factor mid-winter and later.
Unllikely to have these slabs on 40 degree plus terrain
I have seen large deep slabs release on low angle terrain below 20 degrees in the alpine, so given this slope requires full commitment and has terrain traps - I don't like it :-)
being caught in a small wet avalanche is serious, so the fact that a large avalanche is possible dosn't add a huge amount of extra risk given it is a loose avalanche
How does a 20 degree slope require full commitment and contain a terrain trap?
Most windward slopes in this hemisphere are also effected by sun. How does a 20 degree or less slope produce this size of avalanche?
Again, I can't picture a piece of terrain that has mature timber is less than 20 degrees being capable of having a terrain trap and requiring full comment. Maybe a sink hole?
20 degrees is it capable of producing a 300 X 300 avalanche on its own. I don't think so.
Still cant picture that terrain trap in a 20 degree planar slope.
It may have mature timber but a 50 m by 50 m glade is pretty big
It is arguable that an unsupported slope in and of itself is a terrain trap.
something did not work. I assesed the slope as next assesment determinator before unfavorable.
I made a mistake on the last one (I missed the not exposed to sunlight) - please reduce to 'somewhat favourable'
assuming there is no hazard from above, loose will not run below 20 degrees
for wind slabs the propergate less, so terrain t rap does not matter here
again mature timber and wind slabs, protected from wind
20 degrees lets go skiing no mattter what the wind slab conditions
I question if it is protected from wind transport I would vaguely assume it it of a northerly aspect which would be less likely to produce a wet slab
Unless of course some strange layer exits, a 20 degree slope is reasonable, it really depends on the exact terrain trap
A fairly small slope...
I misread CONVEX as CONCAVE.   I changed my mind!
Temperature must remain below freezing.
Concave shape makes slope more favorable
I wouldn't expect a cross-loaded slope to be deep and uniform
It's a bit wierd to say that the fact that it is capable of producing large avalanches isn't a big factor, but truly, it's not a big factor if we're still talking about loose avalanches (if we're talking slabs, then it's a very important factor)