Chiemgau Alps East

Predominantly stable conditions

Predominantly stable conditions

Avalanche danger is low. Gliding snow is the main problem. Isolated small glide-snow avalanches can trigger naturally on steep grass-covered slopes with sufficient snow. Only in isolated cases are slab avalanches (mostly small) still triggerable in shady aspects. In particular by large additional loading at transitions form shallow to deep snow, above approx. 1800m.

In shady high altitude terrain the snow is still dry and expansively metamorphosed at the surface. Elsewhere it is thoroughly moist, and in the morning open spaces are encrusted. In very isolated cases a weak layer persists within the snowpack underneath a melt-freeze crust at higher altitude that is prone to triggering; in the Ammergau Alp graupel is still embedded. The snowpack is, however, mostly stable. The base of the shallow snowpack is moist; gliding movements over smooth grass-covered slopes cannot be ruled out. In south aspects the ground is now totally bare again.