Prone to triggering snowdrift accumulations should be avoided
The avalanche danger is moderate above 2400 m and low below. Slab avalanches can still be triggered in some places above around 2400 m by small additional loads (individual people) in the wind slab and can occasionally be of medium size. Danger areas due to wind slab avalanches are usually easy to recognise and are located particularly adjacent to the ridgeline, behind the edges of the terrain and in gullies and bowls. In shady slopes, there are also isolated trigger points for small to medium-sized slab avalanches in persistent weak layers that are difficult to disturb. There is a risk of burial in particular in the vicinity of terrain traps.
Snowpack
The snow cover, snowpack is highly variable. On the surface, there are blown-in areas with clearly recognisable snowdrift accumulations next to blown-off areas where a melt-freeze crust forms the snow surface. Beneath this is a fluffy layer of faceted crystals and melt-freeze crusts. Prone to triggering weak layers are most likely to be found in the fresh drift snow packs and at the transition to the melt-freeze crust. Due to the overall heavily built-up transformed snow cover, the fracture propagation potential deeper in the old snowpack is generally low, but in isolated places a prone to triggering combination of weak layer and snowpack cannot be ruled out. The snow depth is well below average at all altitudes.
Tendency
No significant change in avalanche danger.
Danger level
Watch out locally for small snowdrift accumulations
The avalanche risk is low, isolated danger areas due to small-scale snowdrift accumulations are located behind terrain edges and in gullies and bowls. The drift snow packs are usually easily recognisable, but danger areas due to stones under the thin snow cover, snowpack are often not.
Snowpack
There is a below-average amount of snow, the snow cover, snowpack is highly variable and touring options are severely limited. In shady slopes at high altitudes, there are isolated weak layers of faceted crystals in the snow cover, mostly in the vicinity of crusts. Away from this, there is a succession of thin layers of drift snow on the meadows.
Tendency
No change in avalanche danger.
Danger level
2200m
Avalanche Problem
Wind slab
2200m
Snowdrift accumulations can be prone to disturbance, beware of injuries from stones
The avalanche danger is low. Slab avalanches can be triggered above 2200 m in a few places by small additional loads (individual people) in the wind slab, but remain small. Be careful in the area of terrain traps, as enough snow could still accumulate here to bury people. Danger areas due to wind slabs are located particularly behind exposed terrain edges and in gullies and bowls. The drift snow packs are usually easily recognisable, but danger areas due to stones under the thin snow cover, snowpack are often not.
Snowpack
The snow cover, snowpack is highly variable. On the surface, there are blown-in areas with clearly recognisable snowdrift accumulations next to blown-off areas where a melt-freeze crust forms the snow surface. Beneath this is a fluffy layer of faceted crystals and melt-freeze crusts. Prone to triggering weak layers are most likely to be found in the fresh drift snow packs and at the transition to the melt-freeze crust. Due to the overall heavily built-up transformed snow cover, the fracture propagation potential deeper in the old snowpack is generally low. The snow depth is well below average at all altitudes.
