Snow report Salzburger Land North, 02/15/2020

Snow condition

Very bad. In the Berchtesgaden basin you can't really ski anywhere down into the valley. Below 1000m it's very thin, above 1200m on the shady side it's at least a bit more white. Yesterday's fresh snow is growing from 2 to approx. 15 cm and the high altitudes look really bad in areas exposed to the wind. It's ok in the light but wind-protected larch forest.

Snow quality

In the larch forest (from 1900m-1500m top, 4*): Settled fresh snow or tension-free drift snow on a compact but not hard layer of old snow. Very quickly wind-influenced above. Dust on crust underneath. (2*)

Below the tree line a 1 and that fits perfectly. Very compact and set, and further up the wind was already working hard again. If there's anything left on the steep south-facing slopes, that will certainly become an issue.

Overall impression

At first I thought oops: the parking lot was already full at 8am and I had to drag my skis for 20 minutes to get started.
Luckily they all went into the cirque (there were probably at least 100 people there today) and it was really cool in the lonely larch forest.
Apart from that, it's sad how little snow there is and everything feels very spring-like. The snow lilies are starting to bloom.