Nock Mountains

Injury from stones and falling are the main dangers.

Injury from stones and falling are the main dangers.

The avalanche danger is low. Only very rarely can fresh drift snow packs be triggered by individuals in shady slopes, avalanches remain small. In areas adjacent to the ridgeline, crests or summits, there are isolated trigger points for predominantly small avalanches that are difficult to disturb, even in persistent weak layers.

The snow depth is well below average for the time of year, low to medium elevations and the sunny slopes are widely covered in snow. The snow cover, snowpack is soaked up to high altitudes on the sunny slopes during the daytime changes, in the shade it often remains frozen hard. At high altitudes on the shady slopes, weak layers of faceted crystals still remain in the snow cover, mostly in the vicinity of crusts.

Some valleys will initially be foggy on Saturday, while visibility will be good on the mountains with high cloud fields. The southerly wind will be mainly weak, in the south moderate in the afternoon. At 2000 metres between 2 and 5 degrees, frost line around 2300 - 2600 metres.

The avalanche danger remains low.