Snow report Berchtesgaden Alps, 03/25/2022

Snow condition

It's getting worse fast at the moment. But there is still something in the more sheltered cirques, gullies and flanks. The same goes for the really high karst areas. On forest roads, you can still get down to 1000 m, but there are also some passages further up that are already loose. The roads have often been milled. A bike makes sense for me almost everywhere.

Snow quality

Not so bad, but not so good either. There were a lot of tracks on my variant and they were quite rough, others in the morning sun were almost too deep again. There was good compact firn and summer firn, but not too abundant. Down in the shady forest it was still pretty hard in the afternoon.

I left relatively late at 13:00. Everything was still quite compact on the NE side. It looks different on the south side, but there's not much snow there anyway. The cold reserve isn't incredibly large, but it's not swampy on the shady side and still frosty at night.

Overall impression

Unfortunately, it's already pretty warm, but the views are amazing and the snow is rideable without being shiny. But it's actually too warm for me this late. Well-timed snow conditions aren't easy to achieve unless you're high up in the snow-covered terrain with moderate sunshine. Let's see if anything happens again. The high pressure of death will probably stay for a few more days at least.