Snow report Salzburger Land North, 03/11/2020

Snow condition

Bad. With high starting points and favorable ground, however, you can still avoid carrying at least in a few places. Below 1200m nothing works, from 1400m you can also go into the forest. From 10-20cm upwards, however, it's okay because the snow cover is very compact due to the wetness and warmth and encloses the obstacles well. The fresh snow from yesterday evening (+10cm at 1600m) was gone this morning (-5cm, same station).

Snow quality

All wet, but quite grippy and compact when rutted. Further down in the untouched then unfortunately a bit slow, but still ok, partly nice to smear. Yesterday's waxing session certainly didn't hurt.

Below 1500m according to the Bavarian LB a 2 and that fits quite well. Many areas at this altitude also have too little snow for major descents. In very steep and heat-exposed areas where there is still some snow, I can still imagine a certain danger. In the higher altitudes, there's probably a drift snow problem, but I haven't been there.

Overall impression

Nice, short early morning exercise in warm temperatures, okay snow and acceptable visibility.
Unfortunately, I couldn't get to the higher starting point due to a temporary road closure and therefore had to stay on the edge of a ski area, but it was ok.
The general snow conditions were just too bad, same old story...