Glockner Group North

Evaluate steep, wind-exposed zones with caution

Evaluate steep, wind-exposed zones with caution

Avalanche danger above 1700 m is MODERATE, below that altitude danger is low. Fresh drifts can be triggered even by 1 person in steep terrain, and reach medium size. Danger zones hard to spot, being blanketed by fresh snow. Danger zones occur in all aspects, increase with ascending altitude. Danger of naturally triggered glide-snow avalanches persists below 2300 m. Where snow is deep enough, they can reach medium size. Avoid zones below glide cracks.

Latest standing: temperatures dropping, 20-40 cm of fresh snow widespread, winds have formed snowdrifts, sometimes prone to triggering. Weak layers are evident inside the fresh fallen snow. The base is largely stable although highly irregular. Large-area weak layers are unlikely. The old snowpack base is moist. Due to the weight of the fresh snowfall, the tendency of the entire snowpack to glide downhill is thus reinforced.

Following a night of clear and windless skies, visibility on Tuesday will be mostly good, frequent sunshine is expected, only stray fogbanks. Moderate SE wind (40 km/hr). At 2000 m: -7 degrees. Sunny weather will continue on Wednesday, the SE winds will slacken off, temperatures rise slightly.

Avalanche danger levels are not expected to change significantly. Caution urged esp. in wind-exposed steep terrain.