Snow report Salzburger Land North, 01/23/2015

Snow condition

Old snow can be found from about 1000m upwards everywhere where the wind has not blown everything away at the turn of the year. In the forest, the trees have greatly reduced the snow cover through heat radiation; you can actually assume up to the tree line that there is no carpet pad around every tree with the radius of its longest branch. You can imagine how light the forest must be to enjoy the next fresh snowfall without coming into contact with stones. I've seen frost here and there, it's possible that there's a nasty thin layer on top of the old snow, which was covered by 5 cm of windless snow overnight. I'm looking forward to the snow profiles next week.

Snow quality

The old snow was hard but not icy, it reminded me spontaneously of charred toast that you scrape off with a knife. The little fresh snow on top made the descent only imperceptibly softer, but no less strenuous.

As described above, it is still absolutely safe today, but if the frost is confirmed, it will be rather uncomfortable from the middle of the week at the latest with the forecast snow masses

Overall impression

5 out of 10 people would only give the morning tour one star because of the difficult snow and poor visibility. But if I had chosen a mountain that wasn't so tracky it might not have been so bad; that, together with my inexplicable 'dont worry be happy' mood and fresh air, is worth 2 to me. (probably because our oracle oracles such great things)