Lechquellen Mountains

Generally favorable conditions, moderate avalanche danger

Generally favorable conditions, moderate avalanche danger

Small-area fresh and older trigger-sensitive snowdrift accumulations are the main danger. Danger zones occur in wind-loaded steep terrain, in gullies and bowls, and behind protruberances in the landscape. Size and frequency of danger zones tend to increase with ascending altitude. In addition, on steep shady slopes at high altitudes and in transitions from shallow to deep snow, isolated slab avalanches can be triggered by large additional loading. A cautious route selection is advised. Small-to-mediium glide-snow avalanches are possible only in isolated cases. Caution urged below glide cracks.

The lastest round of fresh snowfall has been deposited as loose-snow following the lower temperatures atop a well consolidated, often encrusted old snowpack surface, but fresh drifts tend to be often poorly bonded with the old snowpack surface with ascending altitude, sometimes will buried layers of graupel. More deeply embedded layers in the old snowpack are hardly prone to triggering. At most, where the snow is shallow and on very steep shady slopes.

Nighttime skies will be very cold, despite high-altitude clouds. On Tuesday, initially a few clouds, later on very sunny and no longer quite as cold. At 2000m: -7 to 0 degrees. Moderate to strong NE winds and high altitudes.

No significant change expected, caution urged towards high altitude snowdrifts