Drift snow is also powder

Snow condition

Fresh snow from 50cm and 1m in forest aisles. Descent to the car in the village possible. There certainly wasn't much in the area itself before the fresh snow, and it was often blown off at the top due to the constant wind. However, all the blown-off snow then mostly ended up in the forest, which led to dream conditions, at least below the tree line.

Snow quality

Stayed cold, above the tree line it was blown over or a bit pressed. Top powder snow in all other places!

As we only used one lift (Gampen) and visibility wasn't so good at times, we didn't observe anything current. Snow still extremely loose, only a bit of sluff even on steeper runs. Hard to judge above though

Overall impression

Insanity! We started late in the day and then skied until the lift closed. You could already see the first avalanche barriers... By midday there was hardly anyone left in the area and it continued to snow heavily. Most of the tracks will be snowed in again tomorrow if it continues like this! We can only hope that other lifts will open at the weekend :)