Dienten Mountains

Heed signs of wind. Loose powder snow where there is not wind impact.

Heed signs of wind. Loose powder snow where there is not wind impact.

Avalanche danger above 2000 m is CONSIDERABLE, below that altitude danger is MODERATE. Danger zones for slab avalanches occur especially near ridgelines, also distant from ridgelines in high alpine regions, particularly on E/S facing slopes and in steep gullies and leeward bowls. A slab of medium size can be triggered in steep terrain even by minimum additional loading.

Atop a snowpack surface showing marked effects of wind (gullies and bowls are filled to the brim, ridges are utterly windblown) cold snow or fresh snowdrifts lie deposited. Bonding is poor. Also the old snowpack is unfavourably layered (ground-level layers metamorphosed, atop of which are melt-freeze crusts/icy sheets and just beneath the surface hoar is embedded) lies a layer of powder which has not been wind-impacted.

On Sunday, adequate visibility, sunshine only in the background. Some higher summits could be wreathed in fog. Snowfall - hardly any. Winds will be light, moderate at high altitudes, from the northwest. At 1500 m: -9 degrees; at 2000 m: -13 degrees; at 3000 m: -17 degrees.

As a result of intensifying winds and slight rise in temperature, increasing snowdrift problem in exposed terrain.