Werdenfels Alps

Caution due to lacking snow base: In many places at intermediate altitudes danger of falling and being hurt!

Caution due to lacking snow base: In many places at intermediate altitudes danger of falling and being hurt!

Avalanche danger above 1600 m is considerable, below that altitude danger is low. The main problem are snowdrifts which in places can be triggered by minimum additional loading such as a single skier. Avalanche prone locations occur in particular in very steep terrain in NW-N-SE aspects as well as wind-loaded gullies and bowls. Frequency and size increase with ascending altitude. Slab avalanches can grow to medium size. In addition, wet snow is problematic. Moist or wet loose snow avalanches can trigger naturally in all aspects, especially on the sunny side. Loose snow avalanches attain medium size. On very steep slopes with smooth ground there is in addition a risk that small glide snow avalanches release spontaneously.

Up to intermediate altitudes the snow that has fallen on Friday was deposited on ground that had previously become bare of snow again. In many places a thin superficial melt-freeze crust forms during the night. The lower half of the old snowpack is thoroughly moist and stable up to high altitudes. At higher altitudes there are in places trigger-sensitive intermediate layers embedded in the snowdrifts accumulated on Friday and underneath last week's melt-freeze crusts. Where winds intensify locally, fresh snowdrift accumulations will be generated in the afternoon that are prone to triggering. Warming and solar radiation are triggers for loose snow avalanches. The snowpack base is wet which promotes gliding of the snowpack on steep slopes over smooth ground. Gliding snow activity increases slightly as compared to the last weeks.

No significant changes.