Chiemgau Alps East

Not much snow. Expect contact with the ground.

Not much snow. Expect contact with the ground.

Avalanche danger is low. A persistent weak layer threatens at high altitudes in isolated extremely steep zones and near to ridgelines where there is lots of snow. Danger zones are small and large additional loading is required to trigger small avalanches as a rule, esp. in steep ridgeline terrain. On steep grassy slopes, isolated small slide-snow slides cannot be excluded.

The snowpack has only a few cm of loose new snow, moist on south-facing slopes during the day, this atop a shallow old snowpack. At intermediate altitudes the snowpack basis is melt-freeze encrusted, moist towards the ground, but compact. At higher altitudes there are still trigger-sensitive layers of faceted crystals bordering against crusts. All in all, there is too little snow for this juncture of the season. Depths vary between 10 and 60 cm.

Avalanche danger is expected to remain low. Sunny slopes are becoming bare.