Chiemgau Alps East

Danger of injuries through unwelcome contact with the ground

Avalanche danger levels will diminish in the stable weather and mild temperatures towards the end of the week.

Danger of injuries through unwelcome contact with the ground

Avalanche danger above 1600m is moderate, below that altitude danger is low. Snowdrifts are the main problem. Slab avalanches can trigger even by the weight of one single person. Many danger zones occur in steep ridgeline terrain in all aspects and in wind-loaded gullies and bowls. Avalanches can reach medium size at high altitudes, otherwise they are small. In addition, the fresh snow of recent days can trigger naturally as loose-snow avalanches in sunny, rocky, steep terrain in isolated cases.

Fresh snowdrift accumulations are being generated in ridgeline terrain at high altitudes on west-facing slopes. Elsewhere in all aspects and in general at high altitudes, loose powder covers the snowpack consisting of older, often deep drifted layers. Inside the snow masses of recent days in the uppermost half-metre of the snowpack there is often a trigger-sensitive weak layer beneath a marked melt-freeze crust. During the course of the day the snowpack surface will become moist on sunny slopes, but gliding movements over smooth grassy slopes remain the exception. The snowpack at low altitudes is still shallow.