Werdenfels Alps

Avoid snowdrift accumulations.

Avoid snowdrift accumulations.

The avalanche risk is moderate above 1800 metres and low below. Wind slab is the main problem. In places, mostly small slab avalanches can be triggered with little additional load. This is possible above all in the steep terrain adjacent to ridgelines in the west, east and south-east aspects as well as in gullies and bowls.

On a few shady slopes at high altitudes, medium slab avalanches can also be triggered with a large additional load in persistent weak layers, for example when surface avalanches penetrate to deep layers.

When exposed to sunlight, small loose snow avalanches can release themselves from the steep terrain interspersed with rocks.

In places, fresh and older wind slab lies on a small scale on soft layers of snow or a thin crust and is then prone to triggering. In some places, it also lies directly on a load-bearing, crusted can form surface of old snow with which it has bonded well. On shady slopes at high altitudes, weak layers of faceted crystals can be found deep in the otherwise compact old snowpack. In the sun, the new fallen snow of the last few days becomes moist. The southern sides of the middle elevations are rapidly thawing out again.

The avalanche danger is slowly decreasing.