Chiemgau Alps East

Danger of taking a fall on hard snowpack surface

Danger of taking a fall on hard snowpack surface

Avalanche danger is low. Main problem: gliding snow. Isolated glide snow avalanches can trigger naturally on smooth grass-covered slopes in all aspects. The avalanches tend to be small. In places snowdrifts can in addition be triggered as small slabs by a single skier in steep ridgeline terrain in NE/E/S aspects. Beware the dangers of taking a fall.

Following a mostly clear Friday night the snowpack surface is in many placees frozen and softens only slowly during the course of the morning. A cold front from the west will result in a clear drop in temperature and some centimeters of precipitation. Falling as snow at higher altitudes it will be transported by heavy westerly winds. Small-scale snowdrifts will accumulate whose bonding with the snowpack surface deteriorates with ascending altitude. In some places, graupel is embedded. The old snowpack does not contain any significant weak layers, is completely moist and wet at ground level. There is barely any snow below 1500 m, even in north-facing terrain.

The danger of dry slab avalanches can rise somewhat on Sunday due to new snow and wind.