Avalanche danger:
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Snowpack structure (2026-04-05):
In the morning, at low altitudes, there is often a (crumbly) melt-freeze crust on top of this week's new and wind slab snow, which softens quickly. In higher, wind-calm places, there is an average of half a metre of settled new and drift snow, while exposed places are heavily blown and snowdrift accumulations are correspondingly thick. A thin melt-freeze crust from last weekend remains underneath. There are angular shapes and deep rime in the old snowpack on shady slopes. Fractures are most likely to occur within the no longer quite fresh snowdrift accumulations, increasingly also on the uppermost crust, and only rarely in the floating snow close to the ground. Up to high altitudes, longer sunny slopes become moist to wet down to the ground, and the north-facing snow is also moistened on the surface.
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