Snow report Kühtai, 01/27/2024

Snow condition

The snow conditions cannot be assessed on the back, as almost everything has blown off. Otherwise, the snow conditions are quite good, no rock contact and it is easy to ski down to the bottom. Nevertheless, you can clearly see that there are places with a lot and little snow right next to each other.

Snow quality

The snow quality is variable and strongly dependent on exposure and wind influence. On the north side, you can find a kind of powder in places, but this is already quite wind-influenced. On the south side, the snow quality in hollows was surprisingly good.

The main danger at the moment is drift snow. This lies in many exposures and is easy to trigger. With increasing altitude, there is significantly more drift snow and a poorer connection to the old snow.

Overall impression

Beautiful and lonely day of touring. While the masses set off from the parking lot in the direction of Rietzer Grieskogel, we did a nice tour a little further east with some pretty respectable snow. Between 2,000 and 2,500 m there is good snow with a fairly good connection to the old snow, above that it becomes much more dangerous depending on the exposure and steepness.