Snow report Andermatt / Gotthard, 01/28/2017
Tours in the Rotondo area
Andermatt / Gotthard
Snow condition
Snow quality
Overall impression
Snow condition
Just enough. Standard tours can and are mostly used. With a little caution, you can avoid contact with rocks. The top is well blown and the bottom too little, but towards Realp it gets less and less and be careful with streams and other terrain traps.
Snow quality
Broken snow, broken snow, even more broken snow, in sheltered areas occasionally a few turns in heavily packed powder. On the south side you can already ski on firn.
Risks
Relatively relaxed. However, the snowpack structure doesn't bode well if it were to snow on it again. As described in the LLB, I would still approach steep terrain in the NWO sector very defensively. Here you can see many smaller snow slabs that have detached themselves.
Overall impression
Beautiful tour with a long ascent in modest snow conditions but lots of sunshine...Why do you get sunburn on your nose in January - it doesn't start until mid-February at the earliest ?!?
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