Snow report Brenta, 02/15/2026

Snow condition

Enough snow, even down in the valley at 1500 m, pleasantly surpising. Then above the treeline, highly variying snow depths, due to the high winds of Saturday night. The Brenta terrain showed it's vulnerability to winds, and the rocky terrain anyway demands for a lot of snow. But still, all in all, enough snow, not for big turn freeriding, but for alpinistic skitouring.

Snow quality

Strong winds the night before turned the fresh snow into a challenging mix of wind pressed accumulations and hard pack.

The day before (Saturday 14/02/2026) we found stable conditions and 15 cm of race powder. The high winds Saturday night totally changed the situation. Wind slabs were present allover, and many of them released spontaneously with diurnal warming during this sunny sunday. One of the wind slabs that avalanched was medium sized and gave all the parties on the mountain a scary reminder. The situation would have been very serious if there had been a greater snowfall (than those 15 cm that fell the day before). No person though was affected, and with considerated line choice we also managed to still summit.

Overall impression

That was what we were aiming for: a big day out in the Brenta! Monte Serodoli 2708m. Snow depth sufficient, snow quality "una merda", avalanche conditions very tricky - sunshine and very good spirits in the superb panorama of the Brenta! We are proud to not have shied back from all the fresh avalanche debris around, and to have applied our skills to still summit safely. With Nia, Marc and Chris.