Chiemgau Alps East

Isolated older snowdrifts can still be triggered as smaller slab avalanches.

Isolated older snowdrifts can still be triggered as smaller slab avalanches.

Avalanche danger is low. Isolated older snowdrifts can still constitute a problem. Isolated avalanche prone locations are in particular located on very steep slopes and gullies adjacent to ridgelines in S/W/N aspects. Avalanches can be triggered in particular by large additional loading. They tend to be small. Beware of taking a fall. In addition, smaller loose snow avalanches can release spontaneously in sunny steep rocky terrain. Primarily in the Allgäu, isolated glide snow avalanches are possible on smooth steep grass-covered slopes.

Isolated older small-scale snowdrifts can still be prone to triggering. In the old snowpack at higher altitudes there are weak intermediate layers of faceted crystals embedded close to crusts which are, however, hardly worth mentioning. Otherwise the old snowpack is stable and compact. At higher altitudes there is frequently still powder on shady slopes, but in patches also a thin wind crust. A nocturnal thin melt-freeze crust forms at lower altitudes and in south aspects that softens again during the course of the day; thus the snowpack forfeits its firmness. Below 2000m the snowpack base is partly moist.

Avalanche danger levels are not expected to change significantly.