Nock Mountains

Injury from stones and falling are the main dangers.

Injury from stones and falling are the main dangers.

The avalanche danger is low. In shady slopes, fresh drift snow packs can be triggered in places by individuals, avalanches usually remain small. In areas adjacent to the ridgeline, crest or summit, there are isolated trigger points for mainly small avalanches that are difficult to disturb, even in old snow.

The snow depth is well below average for the time of year, low to medium altitudes and the sunny slopes are widely covered in snow. The snow cover, snowpack will be soaked far up during the daytime changes. In shady slopes, weak layers of angular crystals still remain in the snow cover, snowpack, mostly in the vicinity of crusts.

Moderate to brisk winds in the foehn corridors until Thursday night. On Friday, good visibility on the mountains and hardly any wind or clouds apart from patches of fog in some valleys. Warming to around 4 degrees at 2000 metres, frost line around 2500 metres.

The avalanche danger remains low.