Nock Mountains

Few avalanche prone locations

Few avalanche prone locations

Avalanche danger is low. There are very few danger zones in shady, steep entries into gullies and bowls. Particularly by large additional loading, small slab avalanches can be triggered here in the old snowpack. As a result of only minor amounts of fresh snow and win, isolated shallow snowdrift patches can be generate. Apart from the danger of being buried in snow masses, the risks of being swept along and forced to take a fall need to be taken into consideration.

Overall, there is llittle snow on the ground, exposed terrain is windblown or iced over; gullies and bowls are filled to the brim with snow. The small amounts of fresh snow and drifts form only small-sized trigger-sensitive patches. The old snowpack is being weakened, particularly on shady slopes, by expansively metamorphosed snow crystals.

Skies on Friday night will clear, winds will ease off. Saturday will start with sunshine, but high-altitude clouds will move in during the morning hours, light conditions will become diffuse, winds will be light to moderate, the shift at high altitudes to westerly-to-southwesterly. At 2000m: rising from -11 to -5 degrees.

No significant change in avalanche danger levels is anticipated.