Werdenfels Alps

Danger of falling on a hard frozen snow surface!

Danger of falling on a hard frozen snow surface!

The avalanche danger above 1500 m increases from moderate to considerable during the daytime changes. Below that, it is low. Until the morning, gliding snow is the main problem at medium altitudes. Small and medium-sized gliding avalanches will spontaneously release themselves on a few steep slopes with a smooth surface. Staying under glide cracks should be avoided.

When the sun shines, the activity of sliding snow increases on sunny slopes and small and medium-sized, wet loose snow avalanches can be expected from extremely steep terrain that has not yet been discharged.

In addition, weak persistent layers above 1500 metres are problematic. With large additional loads, for example due to cornice breakage, large slab avalanches can also be triggered in isolated cases in the west, north and east aspects. Take particular care in transition areas from a little to a lot of snow.

On the surface, the snowpack freezes overnight in many places and is capable of bearing loads; in the sun, it softens again during the day and soaking progresses. Up to high altitudes, the snowpack is slightly moist, in medium altitudes it is sometimes completely soaked to the ground. In shady slopes at higher altitudes, faceted crystals can be found deeper in the snowpack.

Slow decline in the wet snow problem - the persistent weak layer problem remains.