Snow report Stubai Valley, 02/01/2014

Snow condition

Still pretty bad. Unfortunately, not much has come over from the south. There is about half a meter of snow on 2000, which is not very much of course... But due to the heavy snow, off-piste skiing above the tree line and in higher forest aisles is still possible to a certain extent.

Snow quality

15-20cm of fresh snow overnight, which is still damp but still very powdery, not a slush-cement mixture like the snow of the last few days. Unfortunately not enough, you can actually get through everywhere even with wide skis on the ground. This is mostly hard-frozen crushed snow, but sometimes also the very wet snow of the past few days. All in all rather unpredictable and not so great. There are occasional face shots, but it's not really fun. Varying between 2 and 3 stars.

The latest fresh snow came with practically no wind and at the moment it's only coming down as a sluff, so the only thing to worry about is the base. However, as there hasn't been too much fresh snow in the last few days, the situation is not too critical. Of course, you should still be careful, especially as older drift snow is difficult to recognize.

Overall impression

Somehow nothing. The few areas where it was almost fun were also chopped up by 11...