Chiemgau Alps East

Avoid zones below glide cracks

Avoid zones below glide cracks

Avalanche danger is low. Main problem: gliding snow. Possibility of natural releases of smaller glide snow avalanches on steep smooth grass-covered slopes. At high altitudes isolated small snowdrifts can be triggered as slabs in steep ridgeline terrain. Heed the risk of taking a fall.

A few centimeters of new snow have fallen on Wednesday, impacted little by wind, and have bonded well with the moist old snowpack surface. In some patches close to ridgelines moderate wind generated small snowdrift accumulations that are prone to triggering. At high altitudes the new snow was deposited atop a melt-freeze crust underneath which there are in places soft layers. Due to solar radiation and mild temperatures bonding of the snow at the surface weakens. The old snowpack is otherwise mostly compact and stable. Up to high altitudes it is completely moist and wet down to the ground, thus enabling gliding movements over smooth ground.

Avalanche danger changes little.