Avalanche

Avalanche: Bonkers

MACSalt Lake
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Avalanche

Slab Width
76 m
Weak Layer
New Snow
Trigger Type
Natural
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Slab Thickness
61 cm
Start Zone Aspect
Northeast
Avalanche Problem
New Snow
Start Zone Elevation
3048 m

Bonkers this am was littered with avy debris, some of it the size of a small car (large refrigerator?). Seems to have slid during the high PI time, breaking in the talus to the looker's left of normal Bonkers. Seems to have gone quite a ways (700-800 feet?) but didn't really step down deep into the snowpack (i.e., didn't touch the PWL).

Also looked into Stairs and saw the massive (gargantuan) glide cracks mentioned after the bombing of a week or two back. Deep gouges running through the skier's left side of Stairs with big glide cracks all over, including to skier's right where you'd normally descend.