Allgäu Alps West

Assess with caution freshly generated snowdrifts in steep terrain

Assess with caution freshly generated snowdrifts in steep terrain

Avalanche danger above 2000m is moderate, below that altitude danger is low. Small to medium-sized slab avalanches can be triggered by one sole skier. Danger zones occur esp. on shady, ridgeline steep slopes and in wind-loaded gulliex and bowls. Size and frequency tend to increase in frequency with ascending altitude and during the course of the day. Danger of mostly small-sized glide-snow avalanches on grass-covered slopes or rocky plates still prevails. Therefore, caution urged below glide cracks.

Amounts of fresh snow from the new cold front: 5-10cm, less then expected. Winds moderate to brisk from westerly to northwesterly directions, generating fresh, often trigger-sensitive snowdrift accumulations. Bonding to the old snowpack surface deteriorates with ascending altitude. The below-average snowpack depths are generally well consolidated. Snowpack surfaces are highly varied: high altitude shady slopes are often still powdery, elsewhere there are breakable crusts, sometimes wind crusts are capable of bearing loads. On sunny slopes, a melt-freeze crust forms. Due to dropping temperatures, gliding snow activity will gradually recede.

Westerly air current, harboring a weak front inside it, bringing a pleasant start, then more clouds, including showers passing through, down to 900m, only minor amounts. At 2000m: -6 degrees. Winds moderate to brisk from the west.

Avalanche danger levels will recede