Bavarian Prealps East

Snowdrift accumulations prone to triggering. Risk of falling on icy snowpack surface.

Snowdrift accumulations prone to triggering. Risk of falling on icy snowpack surface.

Avalanche danger above the treeline is moderate, below that altitude danger is low. Fresh snowdrifts are the main problem. Slab avalanches of small-to-medium size can be triggered even by minimum additional loading in places, i.e. from one sole skier. Avalanche prone locations are found above the treeline in steep ridgeline terrain in N/E/S aspects, in freshly wind-loaded gullies and bowls and behind/below protruberances.

Winds from westerly directions intensified at high altitude, small snowdrift accumulations were generated. These were deposited atop loose-snow layers and are thus very prone to triggering. Beneath the new snow of recent days is a melt-freeze encrusted largely stable old snowpack. At lower altitudes the loose snow blankets wet ground.

Depending on amounts of new snow and wind, avalanche danger could rise.