The recent snowdrifts are prone to triggering, one sole skier can trigger small-to-medium sized avalanches. Danger zones occur in steep shady ridgeline terrain and wind-loaded gullies and bowls, they increase with ascending altitude.Due to daytime warming and solar radiation, mostly small loose-snow avalanches are possible esp. on sun-basked and rocky steep slopes. The danger of small, in isolated cases medium-sized glide-snow avalances remains difficult to assess.
Snowpack
Recent fresh fallen 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. On steep shady slopes the uppermost layers of the snowpack are often soft, on sunny slopes already bonded and in the early morning hours capable of bearing loads. The snowpack is throughly wet up to high altitudes but all-in-all well consolidated.
Tendency
Danger of dry-snow avalanches not expected to change. Due to warmth and solar radiation, increasingly frequent slides and loose-snow avalanches expected.
Danger level
2000m
Avalanche Problem
Wind slab
2000m
Wet snow
Favorable conditions. Beware daytime warming.
One sole skier can trigger small-to-medium sized avalanches in the fresh snow and fresh drifts, releases mostly small-sized. 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
Recent fresh fallen 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. The snowpack is throughly wet up to high altitudes but all-in-all well consolidated. At low altitudes the fresh fallen snow lies on bare ground.
Tendency
Danger of dry-snow avalanches further receding. Due to warmth and solar radiation, increasingly frequent slides and loose-snow avalanches expected.
