Attention: fresh snow and snowdrifts prone to triggering
The fresh fallen snow and drifts are prone to triggering, one sole skier can trigger small-to-medium sized avalanches. Danger zones are often blanketed, difficult to recognize, they occur in steep ridgeline terrain and in wind-loaded gullies and bowls and tend to increase in frequency with ascending altitude. Whumpf noises and glide cracks when you tread upon the snowpack surface are indicators of possible danger. Also naturally triggered avalanches are possible. Small-to-medium glide-snow avalanches are still possible.
Snowpack
Fresh snow plus N/E winds have generated fresh snowdrift accumulations which often lie deposited atop a soft, at intermediate altitudes atop an encrusted old snowpack surface. Bonding deteriorates with increasing altitude. The old snowpack is thoroughly wet up to high altitudes. The weight of the fresh snow enhances gliding movements over smooth ground.
Tendency
Danger of dry-snow avalanches slowly receding. Due to warmth and solar radiation, increasingly frequent slides and loose-snow avalanches possible.
Danger level
treeline
Avalanche Problem
New snow
Treeline
Attention: fresh snow and snowdrifts prone to triggering
The fresh fallen snow and drifts are prone to triggering, one sole skier can trigger small-to-medium sized avalanches. Danger zones are often blanketed, difficult to recognize, they occur in steep ridgeline terrain and in wind-loaded gullies and bowls and tend to increase in frequency with ascending altitude. Whumpf noises and glide cracks when you tread upon the snowpack surface are indicators of possible danger. Also naturally triggered avalanches are possible. Small-to-medium glide-snow avalanches are still possible.
Snowpack
Fresh snow plus northerly winds have generated fresh snowdrift accumulations which often lie deposited atop a soft, at intermediate altitudes atop an encrusted old snowpack surface. Bonding deteriorates with increasing altitude. The old snowpack is thoroughly wet up to high altitudes. The weight of the fresh snow enhances gliding movements over smooth ground. At low altitudes the fresh snow fell on bare ground.
Tendency
Danger of dry-snow avalanches slowly receding. Due to warmth and solar radiation, increasingly frequent slides and loose-snow avalanches possible.
