Snow report Salzburger Land North, 02/22/2020

Snow condition

It gets worse and worse. Below 1400m you can hardly really ski on the shaded side. Only on wide roads, clearings, meadows, etc. can you slide down a few more centimetres. The wind has probably added about 10 cm in the last few days. But you should be careful in all areas, something can poke out everywhere. The higher elevations in particular often look like they've been swept clean, with pines and stones everywhere.

Snow quality

When I went up, it still seemed okay to me, but unfortunately you can feel the massive old snow cover very clearly almost everywhere. If you hop around just a little, it feels like you're landing on concrete. The fresh snow/drifted snow would actually be quite good, but just far too thin. You always have to watch out for ice and extremely hard packed snow on the surface, and unfortunately it's also slow and sticky at the bottom in the warmth.

LLB predicted a 1 in all areas in the morning. The snow layers alternate on a small scale and are sometimes heavily worked. On the other hand, there are also heavily blown-in areas near the crest. However, the drift snow is not very brittle and tends to go down as sluff in steep areas, with a risk of injury due to lack of snow.

Overall impression

On the one hand, it was nice to be back at my favorite, short home spot (for the first time this year), because the terrain is short but great.
The weather was good, there was hardly anything going on and the steepest sections were still unridden.
Unfortunately, there's generally not enough snow, you can hardly ski at full throttle and it's far too warm.
It looks bad in the north, Hochkönig and the Schneemeer still have relatively the most of the mountain groups in the Northern Alps, but everything is well below average.