Snow report Salzburger Land North, 12/21/2017

Snow condition

You can give it 3 *, but there's not much at lower altitudes. Forest is not really possible below about 1100 m, up to 1400 m you have to be careful, above that it's good, and there's not much on the alpine meadows below 1200 m either, but it's relatively compact.

Snow quality

Pretty cool, even if it's not the fluffy stuff anymore. But I like it when it's a bit slushy... ;)Slightly damp fresh snow, but super nice to smear and rides fast.

Increasing winds give us a hint of things to come at higher altitudes. The sliding snow slides, which the LLB explicitly warns against, can be seen everywhere in the steeper meadows. In the most delicate altitude level (between 800 and 1200m) most of them are, but the amount of snow is usually relatively small. Nevertheless, you should be careful, as this will certainly increase with the warming.

Overall impression

A mega-beautiful day, great snow, nothing going on, discovered a new variant and had lots of great animal sightings (chamois rutting, golden eagle, etc.).
Only the tracking was exhausting (it was a bit bumpy) and a bit better visibility would have been great.