Border Graie Alps

New snow and wet snow require caution. Extensive experience in the assessment of avalanche danger is important.

New snow and wet snow require caution. Extensive experience in the assessment of avalanche danger is important.

A lot of snow will fall over a wide area. Here the snowfall level will be approximately 1600 m. Large quantities of fresh snow and the wind-drifted snow can be released naturally. This applies in particular above approximately 1800 m in all aspects. Many large and, in isolated cases, very large avalanches are possible. Below approximately 2000 m medium-sized and, in isolated cases, large moist and wet avalanches are possible. The current avalanche situation calls for extensive experience in the assessment of avalanche danger and great restraint.

Over a wide area 30 to 70 cm of snow, and even more in some localities, has fallen since Tuesday above approximately 2000 m. As a consequence of new snow and a moderate to strong wind, large wind slabs formed in the last two days. The new snow of last week is lying on a crust on sunny slopes. This snow is lying on soft layers on shady slopes and at high altitudes and in high Alpine regions. The old snowpack is largely stable.