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 gullies and bowls adjacent to the ridgeline, crests or summits in shady slopes, there are very isolated trigger points in persistent weak layers that are difficult to disturb. Only very rarely can drift snow packs be triggered there by individuals. Avalanches remain small.

The snow depth is well below average for the time of year. In the south of the country, there is some wind slab snow on a crusted can form surface. On the sunny slopes, the snow cover, snowpack softens during the daytime changes. In shady slopes at high altitudes, there are isolated weak layers of faceted crystals in the snow cover, mostly in the vicinity of crusts. The fracture propagation potential is generally low due to the overall heavily built-up transformed snow cover.

The night into Saturday will be clear and frosty. On Saturday, the sunny mountain weather will continue with good visibility. The wind will be mostly light and it will be milder, with temperatures of around 5 degrees at 2000 metres and 0 degrees at 3000 metres.

The avalanche danger remains low.