Glockner Group Pasterze

Circumvent fresh snowdrifts. Isolated naturally triggered avalanches possible.

Circumvent fresh snowdrifts. Isolated naturally triggered avalanches possible.

Snowdrift accumulations which are prone to triggering will be generated particularly in gullies, bowls and behind protruberances in the landscape due to fresh snow and increasingly storm-velocity winds. Snowdrifts can be triggered by one single skier. Avalanches can in isolated cases trigger naturally at the foot of rock cliffs and grow to medium size esp in zones where snowfall has been heavy. They can also trigger in the weak layers in isolated cases and grow to medium size. Particularly unfavorable are shady slopes. Size and frequency of danger zones will tend to increase with ascending altitude.

Often stormy winds will transport the fresh fallen snow. The fresh snowdrift accumulations will be deposited atop a weak old snowpack surface particularly on shady slopes and be poorly bonded to it. Further snowdrifts will accumulate during the course of the day above 2400m atop a weak snowpack esp. on NW/N/SE facing slopes. Fresh drifts will often lie atop weak layers. The snowpack is highly diverse even over small areas.

On Thursday, dense clouds all day long, rainfall especially in the morning hours, then also snowfall (snowfall level at 1400-1800m). Moderate to strong velocitdy SW winds, stormier at high altitudes. At 2000m: 0 degrees at midday; at 1000m: 4-7 degrees.

Circumvent fresh snowdrifts