The fresh wind slab is prone to triggering and can be triggered by even a small additional load. Avalanche prone locations can be found adjacent to ridgelines and distant from ridgelines in almost all aspects. Snowdrift accumulations are mainly located in gullies, bowls and behind terrain edges down to forest aisles.
Slab avalanches can reach medium size.
Defensive behaviour is required when venturing into open terrain.
Snowpack
Since Monday evening, up to 25 cm of new fallen snow has fallen in combination with gale-force winds in some places. This covers the snowfall of the past week, which was also heavily influenced by the wind and relocated accordingly.
Relevant weak layers are mainly in the windslab snow and at the transition to the predominantly stable old snowpack.
In the old snowpack, faceted crystals or floating snow are still present in places at shady high altitudes. However, these are currently hardly prone to triggering and do not pose a significant avalanche problem.
At lower altitudes, there is less snow overall, in particular on sunny slopes.
Tendency
The wind slab problem is diminishing.
Clouds will continue to accumulate from the north on Thursday, with short snow showers still possible.
Danger level
1200m
Avalanche Problem
Wind slab
1200m
Drift snow packs can easily be triggered!
The fresh wind slab is prone to triggering in places and can be triggered by even a small additional load. Avalanche prone locations are mainly found in gullies, bowls and behind terrain edges down to forest aisles.
Slab avalanches can reach medium size.
Snowpack
Since Monday evening, up to 20 cm of new fallen snow has fallen in combination with gale-force winds in some places. This covers the snowfall of the past week, which was also heavily influenced by the wind and relocated accordingly.
Weak layers in the wind slab can be triggered with little additional load.
Tendency
The wind slab problem is diminishing.
Clouds will continue to accumulate from the north on Thursday, with short snow showers still possible.
Danger level
Low avalanche danger, but avoid fresh pillows of wind drifted snow!
Pillows of wind drifted snow are occasionally prone to triggering and can be triggered by individuals as a small slide. However, the risk of burial is low.
Snowpack
There have been repeated snowfalls on the Hochwechsel and in the Bucklige Welt in the last few days in conjunction with mostly strong to stormy winds. The new fallen snow was transported intensively and deposited as wind slab, especially in forest aisles and at higher altitudes.
Where there is an old snowpack, the drift snow packs are deposited on it and can slide off. Breaks within the drift snow layers are also possible.
