Snow report Salzburger Land North, 01/16/2017

Snow condition

Yo, fits quite well. From yesterday to today we got about 10-15cm, today it flaked all day long, but lightly. I don't think we got more than 5-10cm, descents through dense forest are quite possible, even a bit of hopping around is possible, in untouched passages it's still really deep in places.

Snow quality

The fresh snow is cold and fluffy, underneath >1000m set, but soft pow. Perfect and therefore 5*. Below 1000m the slightly icy to hard (but not particularly hard) layer of old snow comes through, but can still be skied well thanks to the nice surface. (For the last two things we give 3*, results in a 4*)

I've only been below 1400m, everything has settled well here, and there's a bit of sluff in the very steep terrain, but not much, and things certainly look more critical higher up, see LLB.

Overall impression

Super good day. Visibility was very poor in the morning, then the sun came out for the last run in the early afternoon, great. Great snow, but soon there won't be much untracked snow to be had in the standard variants. High-pressure weather is forecast for the next few days, so maybe something higher will be possible for touring here.