The fact that we were going down the chute late afternoon when snow turned into deep mush and temperatures were in the 50's that day made the snow sticky and not too slippery. On the way up we saw a couple of guys descending the chute with ice axes as brakes - the correct way. That made us very jealous as we had no idea how we were going to descend yet.
The chute could also be viewed as nothing more than an average ski slope. What we did was to bend our legs at 90 degrees, dig our toes and stretch out arms to dig into the snow and act as brakes. Worked just fine, as we were able to stop at will, but snow condition at the time probably helped immensely. It was a lot harder and more slippy on the way up.
