Karwendel Mountains West

Fresh wind slabs are to be evaluated with care and prudence in terrain where there is a danger of falling. On steep grassy slopes individual gliding avalanches are possible.

Fresh wind slabs are to be evaluated with care and prudence in terrain where there is a danger of falling. On steep grassy slopes individual gliding avalanches are possible.

Fresh wind slabs are only small but can be released easily. Individual avalanche prone locations are to be found in particular adjacent to ridgelines and in pass areas above approximately 2400 m. The avalanche prone locations are but are clearly recognisable to the trained eye. Restraint should be exercised because avalanches can sweep people along and give rise to falls. Avalanches can additionally in very isolated cases be released in near-ground layers in shady places that are protected from the wind. Such avalanche prone locations are very rare but are barely recognisable, even to the trained eye. On steep grassy slopes individual gliding avalanches are possible, especially on sunny slopes below approximately 2400 m.

The snowpack is largely stable; its surface consists of loosely bonded snow. On Sunday the wind will be moderate at times in the regions exposed to the foehn wind. Adjacent to ridgelines small wind slabs will form. Isolated avalanche prone weak layers exist in the old snowpack on shady slopes. This applies in particular in places that are protected from the wind at elevated altitudes.

Some snow will fall. The conditions are generally favourable.