Avalanche cat 1, they don't make it up you know

Well, out on a ski tour today taking in another part of the fantastic Allgäu region.  For the past few days the Avalanche category has been level 1 - low rising to 1* in the afternoons in the middle mountain regions (up to 2000m). Today I was skinning up (at approx 1250m) and round the corner came accross this (excuse the angle of the camera I was trying to ski over the blocks) on a South facing slope at an angle of around 30 degs.


The slide was around 200m and the larger blocks are around 1m in height.  For cat 1 the trigger probability is 'Only small natural avalanches are possible'.
So this was a good example of the forecast being spot on.  This had probably released yesterday in the afternoon.

The rest of the day was great, some good skiing coming back down through the trees but near the bottom the snow is very 'spring' like.