Snow report Salzburger Land North, 04/05/2016

Snow condition

Nowadays, you have to carry your bike almost everywhere or fight your way downhill through long bike passages. However, you can still descend 1000 m on the longest tours. Many of the larger stones and rocks are now covered in snow, but due to the compact snow cover and careful riding, there are few problems with sharks.

Snow quality

Deep, slushy and wet up to 2200m. Interestingly, it was quite good on the last 200 m, where there was compact, grippy and fast summer firn.

Today the LLB was suitable with a 1 up to 1700m and above that a 2. I would advise against very steep and not yet unloaded slopes, otherwise manageable.

Overall impression

Somehow a very funny tour. I've rarely come home from a tour so wet (inside and out) and dirty (cycling). I also had to wipe the drizzle off my ski goggles every 20m or so on the descent (you'd need windshield wipers!). Because my hardshell was already completely soaked before the descent and it would have been too windy otherwise, I wrapped myself in the neo-orange emergency bivy sack. It worked really well and certainly looked very stylish...