Snow report South-north routes, 04/13/2017

Snow condition

See the day before yesterday: Relatively little snow in comparison to other years, but currently absolutely enough. We started today at approx. 500 meters, all variants were possible without any problems due to the snow conditions.

Snow quality

Really good and unexpectedly so. We went up the south side, which was frozen hard, but we didn't even need crampons despite the steepness of up to 35 degrees. Descent then via the east side, some slopes were north-facing. 15-20 cm of great powder, in contrast to yesterday hardly any wind influence. At the bottom there was a direct transition from super powder to super firn.

Much better than yesterday! There were still a few pockets on the south side that could have been triggered under certain circumstances. Otherwise pretty stress-free, we were back at the parking lot at 12 and therefore had no problems with warming up. Some steep slopes still look dangerous with the drift snow, and the tour is only a few kilometers away as the crow flies from yesterday's really unstable snow cover. As I said, the whole thing is very local.

Overall impression

Wow! It doesn't get much better than great weather, bomb scenery and over 1000m of first lines in super terrain & snow.