Snow report Kalkkögel, 02/19/2025

Snow condition

Slightly below average to average amount of snow for the time of year. Most of the variants can be skied without contact with stones, but the entrances are often rather stony or rocky.

Snow quality

The snow quality varies greatly depending on the exposure. On slopes protected from the wind and sun, the powder holds up well and is nice and soft and pleasant to ski on. Everything that is exposed to the sun has a hard top and can be nasty, but softens up again towards the afternoon so that you can get down everywhere quite well.

As we are only up to 2,400 m and almost everything here has been ploughed up, it is unfortunately not possible to say anything about dangers at the moment. According to the LWD, above 2,400 m there is a problem with old snow, which definitely needs to be taken into account. Below that, conditions are more favorable, especially for the standard variants.

Overall impression

Finally found time for a tour again. It was only the Nockspitze with a descent via the northwest gully, but better than nothing. The gully itself is very rutted and hard in the upper, somewhat narrower part. Further down it is much softer and easy to ski despite the tracks. Everything where there are no tracks and much better on the north side (see CR from Powsearcher) but all in all a fine day.