Avalanche Service Upper Austria

Friday 9 January 2026

Published 9 Jan 2026, 08:03:00


Danger level

1800m
Avalanche Problem
Wind slab
1800m


Fresh wind slab is particularly important at higher altitudes.

The avalanche danger is predominantly low, sometimes moderate at higher altitudes. Attention should be paid to high, freshly blown-in steep slopes adjacent to the ridgeline as well as steep bowls and gullies filled with new loads. Small slab avalanches can usually be triggered here by a small additional load. These avalanche prone locations should be avoided.

Snowpack

The recently fallen new snow was transported locally by strong, sometimes even stormy winds from the west to north-west and binds poorly with the cold, either soft or icy old snowpack on the surface or older windslab snow. Older snowdrift accumulations can contain thin intermediate layers such as angular forms and are still prone to triggering. The thin snow base, fundament is weakened by the kinetic metamorphism. The snow depths remain very below average and low right up to the high altitudes.

Tendency

Due to further light to moderate snowfall and partly strong winds from the west, the risk of slipping snow remains moderate.