An update on the Weissensee ice, and the tourist board shares dreamlike images
The current state of the Weissensee ice: a thin, snow-covered layer lies on the small lake. At the same time the large lake is largely open. And the tourist board in Techendorf is sharing dreamlike images.
Dreamlike images
The tourist board Visit Weissensee in Techendorf has shared images of sunrise at the mountain lake.
The office for sustainable winter tourism uses the hashtag #alpinepearls, among others. Because of its ‘extraordinary’ character, the Weissensee among the pearls of the Alps.
The images show the characteristic traum (dream) of a pink sunrise on the remarkable Weissensee.
Photo: Visit Weissensee
The current state of the Weissensee ice
The photos also show snow’s double role as ‘jewel’ and ‘devil’. As a jewel the images speak for themselves. The opposition lies in the slowed growth of the ice.
At the end of November the first icecame, in line with the prediction of St Kathrein. But by mid-December there is no progress to report.
In fact a great deal of snow fell in between. Which has slowed the growth of the ice. And the current crust is too thin to sweep the snow off.
Which means it will be a while before there is skateable ice. The snow-covered layer currently lies only on the small lake. The ice is so thin that the ice master and his team have not published any measurements yet.
A negative travel advisory for the Weissensee, Carinthia, for now
The Netherlands is more or less shut. The prime minister announced the contents of the lockdown yesterday. And the general advice , not to travel abroad, has been extended to mid-March.
The official advisory from Foreign Affairs also advises against travel to Austria for now: code orange, essential travel only. The official advice does sometimes differ from the general advice.
Dutch travellers usually go to the Weissensee in the last weeks of January. The first tour of the cancelled ‘Weissensee Alternative Dutch 11-City Tour’ was scheduled for 21 January, for instance.
- For now the Dutch lockdown ends on 19 January.
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