Snow report Paznaun Valley, 02/08/2022

Snow condition

The base is good enough for the light, north-facing forest (up to approx. 1700m), further down in the forest it gets a bit scarcer. On the south side, the situation is generally much worse; there it is of course sufficient for slopes with meadowy ground, but there is not much there.

Snow quality

Very fine powder snow on the north side, hardly any wind influence and it stayed nice and powdery there all day. Only one descent on the south side, as the snow was already heavy at over 2000m at 11am.

In the busy variant terrain, I estimate the situation to be much more favorable than currently indicated by the LWD. 30cm of fresh snow with not too much wind influence, still unbound today. There were no avalanches or danger signs to be seen in the area, apart from small loose snow slides in sunny steep slopes. Away from the busy terrain, the situation probably looks a lot more critical due to the old snow problem!

Overall impression

10,000 vertical meters of descent on one freeride day, most of it in fine powder snow without barely crossing a track and even at 3:30 pm there were still first lines to be picked up. Definitely one of the best freeride days of the entire winter!