Snow report Salzburger Land North, 05/20/2019

Snow condition

I've never done this tour so late in the year with such good snow conditions. Setting off from home to do a ski tour with a 1000-metre descent in mid-May feels fantastic.

Snow quality

Modest compared to winter during the week, but not too bad either. As soon as the sun comes in, it quickly becomes very slow. Sporadic but good and firn-like, as well as broken harsch, down in the forest is actually the best - nice slushy summer firn. Good 2 *.

There's a lot of cracking and rumbling from the east face, but nothing particularly unusual. Start early and avoid sunny sides.

Overall impression

Great tour in the most pleasant company, with great light and visibility conditions. It's nice that there is still a lot of snow in the high altitudes. Depending on what the coming warm rain does, it will be good for a while yet.
Spoiled by the last two powder days during the week, the snow was of course rather poor, but the ambience and everything else made up for it. Subjective 4th * for me... ;)
We started from home at 6am and left at 10am. We were completely alone at the summit, but it's completely incomprehensible to me that we encountered numerous ski tourers on the descent, even at the bottom. In my opinion, much too late.