Chiemgau Alps East

Caution: risk of falling due to small slab avalanches!

Caution: risk of falling due to small slab avalanches!

Avalanche danger above the timberline is moderate, below that altitude danger is low. Main problem: fresh snowdrifts. Slab avalanches that remain mostly small can be triggered even by minimum additional loading on some steep slopes adjacent to ridgelines in N/E/SW aspects as well as in wind-loaded gullies and bowls. Above the timberline the number of avalanche prone locations will rise slightly In line with the daytime danger cycle.

Due to partly stormy wind and the onset of snowfall small snowdrifts will accumulate on Monday. On the shady side, these will be deposited atop a powdery old snowpack surface and in many places atop surface hoar. On the sunny side and at lower altitudes a melt-freeze crust forms during the night, underneath which faceted crystals are forming. Otherwise, the old snowpack is mostly stable.

Rising avalanche danger due to new fallen snow and wind.