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Artificial Snow Avalanche Streif Kitzbühel
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

Bizarre !! Shocked

The avalanche on the Streifabfahrt was an artificial snow avalanche. From the trigger mechanism it was a slab avalanche. Thus, artificial snow was deposited on a previously formed weak layer. When 3 people were in this officially closed slope area, the avalanche broke loose. All 3 people were swept away, with one person suffering serious injuries from the impact with a tree, another person slightly injured and one uninjured.

Artificial snow avalanches are still rather rare, but have become more frequent in recent years. In terms of the release mechanism, we distinguish between artificial snow avalanches, which are released as slab avalanches, and those that slide down steep meadow slopes as gliding avalanches.

During this winter we are already aware of a total of 4 artificial snow avalanches, one on 06.12.2025 on the Leppleskofel in East Tyrol (see . Blog), one on 21.12.2025 at the (closed) valley run in the Zell am Ziller ski area and one on 26.12 on the Gaisberg near Obergurgl (which consisted partly of artificial snow and went off next to a slope).

The latter three avalanches were each without personal involvement."

https://lawinen.report/blog/at-07-de/12695

https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/kitzbuehel-zwei-jugendliche-bei-lawinenabgang-auf-streif-abfahrt-teils-verschuettet-a-974ca114-491b-4ec7-9945-6675762b656a
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Wow! Bizarre indeed @stanton!
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