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The Avalanche Warning Service Tyrol offers its newsletter function via various channels. It's best to register now to stay up to date! The daily avalanche report is standard reading every evening to determine the next destination in the snow and to carry out appropriate risk management on site.

Patrick Nairz has been an avalanche forecaster for the avalanche warning service in Tyrol for over 20 years and is a well-known face in the ski touring scene. Schneestöberer spoke to him about the 5 avalanche problems, his career, his most important contributions to avalanche prevention and about hunting for crusts in the snowpack.

As of December 7, 2019, the newsletter of Lawinen.report has to be discontinued due to a change in the terms of use of the Facebook subsidiary. But there are alternatives to stay up to date!

The PowderAlert has already announced that the recent snowfall will be followed by a longer period of high pressure with sunshine everywhere and relatively mild temperatures. Good for touring, bad prospects for all those who want fresh snow.

Since the 2018/19 season, there has been a joint avalanche forecast for the Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino European region for the first time. Cross-border, multilingual, standardized. A worldwide novelty. In the background, several years were spent working on the perfect implementation. We spoke to the two tireless project supervisors Norbert Lanzanasto and Christoph Mitterer from the Tyrol Avalanche Warning Service about the background to the Euregio Avalanche Report.

Winter sports enthusiasts who enjoy being out in the open terrain benefit enormously from the free service of the daily avalanche situation report (LLB). During the winter months, Eliane Droemer found out how the situation report is created every day from over 200,000 pieces of data and observations in the terrain, what news there is from research and what experiences the team has in common during the first control flight of the 18/19 season with LWD Tirol in mid-December.

The Snow and Safety Conference in Zürs am Arlberg is now part of the season opener on the Arlberg for the seventh year in a row. After last year's perfect conditions with a sufficient base and an additional load of fresh powder snow just-on-time, the participants and organizers were reminded once again this year that early winter does not always have the thickest snow cover.

The renaissance of the "snow profile for everyone" has long since begun. Anyone who wants to record or pass on their profiles can now purchase an elegant recording tool.

Since the 2017/2018 season, LWD Tirol has been offering the option of automatically receiving the daily avalanche situation report and new blog entries in the form of a Whats App subscription. This service has proven to be very useful in practice and is therefore our Gear of the Week.

The past weekend up to and including Monday was characterized by sunshine and high fog throughout the Alps. We count Monday as a weekend because the WeatherBlog suspects that some people took Monday "Finally the conditions are right for that steep tour I've always wanted to do". And anyway, every beginning of the week is also the beginning of the previous weekend.