Werdenfels Alps

Wind slabs are still prone to triggering, especially at high altitudes.

Wind slabs are still prone to triggering, especially at high altitudes.

The avalanche risk is moderate above 2000 metres and low below. Wind slabs are the main problem. This can be triggered as a small, occasionally medium slab avalanche with low additional load. The avalanche prone locations increase with altitude and are mainly located in steep terrain adjacent to ridgelines with aspects from west to north to east as well as in gullies and bowls.

On a few shaded steep slopes at high altitudes, medium slab avalanches can also be triggered in persistent weak layers with a high additional load.

Small loose snow avalanches can detach themselves from the steep terrain interspersed with rocks. Smaller gliding avalanches are possible on smooth, steep meadow slopes.

As the altitude increases, the wind slab snow of the last few days lies partly prone to triggering on soft layers of snow or a thin crust. However, it often lies directly on a load-bearing, crusted can form surface of old snow with which it has bonded well. On shady slopes at high altitudes, weak layers of faceted crystals can be found deep in the otherwise compact old snowpack in some places. A melt-freeze crust forms overnight in the middle and southern slopes of the high altitudes, which quickly softens again during the day. The southern sides of the middle elevations are largely bare, with little snow overall.

Little change in avalanche danger.