Avalanche.report

Thursday 9 January 2025

Published 8 Jan 2025, 17:00:00


Danger level


Avalanche Problem
Wet snow


Little snow on the ground, low avalanche danger

Avalanche danger levels are low. Mostly wet slides and, where snow is sufficient, small glide-snow avalanches are possible. Caution urged below glide cracks.

Snowpack

Hardly any fresh snow. At lower altitudes the shallow drifts have dissolved, the snowpack has been weakened by rain impact. Glide-snow avalanches still possible.

Tendency

A bit of snowfall, dropping temperatures. No immediate effect on avalanche danger levels.o


Danger level

1200m
Avalanche Problem
Wet snow
1200m


Wet-snow avalanches due to rain impact and higher temperatures

Where there was rain impactd, slides and small wet-snow avalanches are possible. Small, in isolated cases medium-sized glide-snow avalanches are possible. Caution below glide crdacks. At lower altitudes there is hardly an snow on the ground, danger is low.

Snowpack

Snowpack weakened up to high altitudfes due to higher temperatures an rain impact. Older covered drifts are generally compact, unlikely to trigger. Wet slides and glide-snow avalanches continue to be possible.

Tendency

Avalanche danger levels to increase somewhat on Friday d to fresh snowfall


Danger level

2200m
Avalanche Problem
Wind slab
2200m
Wet snow
2200m


Fresh snowdrifts prone to triggering

Trigger-sensitive snowdrift accumulations are threatening. The accumulations can be easily triggered even by one sole skier. Danger zones occur in wind-loaded steep terrain, in gullies and bowls, and behind protruberances in the landscape. Size and frequency of danger zones tend to increase with ascending altitude. In addition, on steep shady slopes at high altitudes and in transitions from shallow to deep snow, isolated slab avalanches can be triggered by large additional loading. In zones where there has been rain impact, slides and small wet-snow avalanches are possible. Glide-snow avalanches, mostly small, continue to be possible. Caution urged below glide cracks.

Snowpack

Fresh snow and loosely-packed older snow will be transported widespread at high altitudes. Fresh and older, covered snowdrift accumulations are prone to triggering. The old snowpack is weakened up to high altitudes due to rainfall. Covered snowdrift accumulations and the o snowpack are generally compact and unlikely to trigger.

Tendency

Fresh snowdrift accumulations remain prone to trigger at high altitudes