Chiemgau Alps East

Avoid areas below glide cracks

Avoid areas below glide cracks

Avalanche danger is low. Main problem: gliding snow. Isolated smaller glide snow avalanches can trigger naturally on steep grass-covered slopes in all aspects. In addition, individual small loose glide snow avalanches are possible in steep rocky terrain.

Following a clear night in many places the snowpack surface is mostly encrusted early in the morning. As the day progresses, the melt-freeze crust softens again due to warming and solar radiation. Up to high altitudes the snowpack is moist and wet down to the ground, thus enabling gliding movements over smooth ground. At high altitudes, spatially limited some snowdrifts can accumulate and some places there is a soft layer underneath a melt-freeze crust - triggerable in isolated cases. Elsewhere the snowpack does not contain any significant weak layers. There is barely any snow below 1500 m.

Avalanche danger changes little.