Pongau Grass Mountains

Few avalanche prone locations due to persistent weak layers of snow

Few avalanche prone locations due to persistent weak layers of snow

The avalanche risk is low. There are small-scale avalanche prone locations due to prone to triggering, fresh wind slabs in the sectors from north to south-east and in steep gullies. Above around 2000 m, small slab avalanches can still be triggered in the persistent weak layer in a few places in the steep terrain looking from north-west to north to east. Danger areas are located at the transition from little to more snow and generally next to blown-off areas as well as in the entrance areas to gullies and bowls filled with wind slabs. The risk of falling and injury generally outweighs the risk of burial, pay attention in the area of terrain traps.

New and windslab snow cover a very varied surface: steep sunny slopes below around 1500 m were recently bare. Otherwise, the base is often crusted, sometimes hard, and still soft in wind-protected high altitudes. On wind-protected shady slopes above around 1500 m, surface hoar is sometimes covered with snow. Especially in northern and eastern aspects, bonded snow overlays a weak old snowpack of faceted crystals and deep frost.

In the evening and on Friday night, 5 to 10 cm of new fallen snow (snowfall level around 1100 m) with lively to strong winds from the west to northwest. During the day, snowfall will be light. The wind will drop quickly and the clouds will soften again from the west. At 1500 m around -1 degrees, at 2000 m -5 degrees.

Little change during the day. However, the onset of snowfall on Saturday afternoon covers up the wind signs from the previous day.