Chiemgau Alps East

New snow and snowdrifts easily triggerable!

New snow and snowdrifts easily triggerable!

Avalanche danger above the timberline is considerable, below that altitude danger is moderate. Main problem: fresh snow. New snow and snowdrifts can be released by one sole skier on steep slopes in all expositions or trigger naturally in places. Avalanches are mostly medium-sized, but when sweeping along the thoroughly wet old snowpack at high altitude they can in isolated cases grow to large size. Avalanche prone locations are difficult to detect; number and size increase with ascending altitude during the course of the day. In addition, medium-sized glide snow avalanches can start gliding over the ground on smooth grass-covered slopes and in sparsely wooded zones.

Heavy new snowfall is deposited atop the snowdrifts of the last few days blankets them and makes them difficult to recognize. By Friday evening, new snow quantities of up to half a meter will have accumulated widespread since the beginning of the week. The new snow is transported slightly by moderate northerly to westerly winds and will bond. The new snow and the snowdrifts are partly deposited atop thin soft layers and are prone to triggering. At intermediate altitude the old snowpack is mostly wet down to the ground, whereas it is by and large compact and stable at high altitude.

The avalanche situation will remain tense due to further snowfall.