Snow report Roof tile, 02/24/2021

Snow condition

Walking away from the valleys (here in the valleys around 1000m) now becomes an ascent on foot. Even on the forest road, whenever it was exposed to the sun, unbuckling was necessary. Otherwise it was often bare water ice. In the actual ski terrain, i.e. from the alpine pasture zone (from 1500m upwards), there was actually still enough snow.

Snow quality

Finding good firn conditions is a delicate game. You have to be very early on the south side. We reached the summit around midday, by which time it was of course already too late for the south side. We still found good firn on the southwest and west sides. In the shady forest, much of the snow was still frozen. Descents with changing exposures offer a wide variety of snow conditions at the moment.

The Styrian LWD has now switched to 1s, of course with a reference to the daily course. We couldn't see any signs of current avalanche activity today. On the south side, the overnight snow cover will probably melt away very early in the morning. The snow cover here is already completely soaked.

Overall impression

At the top from the alpine pasture area, still good spring conditions (firn) with sufficient snow. In the forest zone, however, the fun soon comes to an end. As is generally the case here, there is nothing going on during the week. We were on our own all day and were allowed to completely retrack the upper slopes. Hence three stars.