skitouring
Ski Mountaineering and Alpinism Resources
This site is a private collection of resources for ski mountaineering, organized by the typical planning stages as follows:
- Snow: In which regions will be enough snow?
- Measurements and data
- Webcams
- Weather Forecast: In which regions can we expect favorable weather conditions?
- Avalanche Risk and Alpine Conditions: Which types of tours should we aim at?
- Avalanche bulletins
- Maps with slope steepness layers
- Wind data
- Local weather
Snow Conditions
- Snowfall Limits via MetGIS
- Austria and South Tyrol
- Bavarian Alps
- Swiss Alps
Weather Forecasts
- Entire Alpine Region: DAV Bergwetter
- Bavarian Alps: Weather by Lawinenwarndienst
- Austria: ZAMG Mountain Weather Forecast
Webcams
Entire Alps
Bavaria
Switzerland
Avalanche Bulletins
- Bavarian Alps: Lawinenwarndienst Bayern - Bulletin
- Austria and South Tyrol: Bulletin
- Swiss Alps: SLF Bulletin
Maps and Topographical Information
- OpenSlopeMap.org - Maps with Slope Steepness
- Europe: Outdooractive Maps via DAV Portal [Paywall]
- Austria
- Tyrol: tirisMaps (Check option “Neigung in Grad”)
- Austria: geoland.at Portal
- Swiss Alps: Maps with Steepness Layer
Wind
- Windy
- Wetteronline.de: Historical Data [Paywall]
- Austria: zamg.ac.at Historical Data
- Switzerland: Meteoblue Historical Weather Data [Paywall]
Additional Resources
Open Data and Open Software
- Austria: Geosphere API
- Austria: Open Data and Open Software
- Austria: Latest Forecast as XML
- Austria: Salzburg Geodata
- Germany: API Deutscher Wetterdienst
- Switzerland: opendata.swiss