Snow report Montafon, 12/08/2019

Snow condition

Nothing, even less than in the other regions in the Montafon. Even the very flat and easy routes can only be walked up, a descent is hardly/not possible.

Everything is there, as it has been for the last few weeks. But you can't rely on the exposure, as the wind is largely responsible for the condition. Some of the north-facing cirques, where the sun can't reach, are covered in snow with wind tracks. 2m next to it is soft snow again.

I'm writing this update from Gargellen mainly because the snow on the north-facing slopes has changed completely down to the ground. In some places there are 20-30cm thick layers of transformed snow at around 2200-2400m below the Gargellen heads. It crumbles like sugar, the last time I saw something like this was in the old snow winter a few years ago. I haven't noticed anything similar in the Nova/Hochjoch. The process was nowhere near as advanced there.

Overall impression

Hope for an improvement in the snow conditions this week. Skiing is hardly feasible like this, if you want to do some touring, you walk up and ski down where the snow collects. But it definitely doesn't make sense, it's just nicer than sharing the slopes with Herbert, Gundula and their 3 grandchildren.

Achja, the picture upload is unfortunately not working and is currently hanging up for me. (Android and Chrome)