Wölzer Tauern on 23.02.2022 | gletscho

Snow condition

Significantly less in the valley than in the Salzkammergut, increasing rapidly with altitude. Forest from about 1300/1400m very well snowed in (deadwood, but also streams etc.). I include the fresh snow from yesterday (incl. the night before yesterday to yesterday).

Snow quality

Cardboard snow at the bottom due to the warming since yesterday. Then from about 1400m in the forest fine powder snow (fresh snow from yesterday and tonight). Further up there is a lot of wind (north-west side, therefore more on the hard side), but good to ski. In the shaded forest from 1400 to 1800m 4-star quality and also quite deep).

Strong cornice formation on the northeast-southwest oriented summit ridge (Hahnalpl).

Overall impression

Heute noch sehr feiner Pulverschnee im Wald. Weiter unten dann allerdings nur noch schattseitig, da am Nachmittag die Sonne durchgehend herauskam und in Verein mit der deutlichen Erwärmung den Schnee ordentlich "angebraten" hat. Den vierten Stern gibt es dennoch, da einige hundert Höhenmeter, das schöne Wetter und die Tatsache, dass wir die Einzigen waren und first lines ziehen konnten doch dafür spricht.