So, micro's might work on sb's but it could get dicey, especially since it's supposed to dump snow this Friday, so depends on when you go.
Steepness of the chute...hmmm, definitely not a BD, but it's pretty steep, you pick up some good speed glissading, and I had to regularly brake and even self arrest a couple times.
As for chute vs switchbacks it depends on your fitness. The chute is really going to tax you, although if you hit it early in the am the snow should be pretty firm and you might not post-hole as much as you might later in the day.
I can't tell you if I would have taken the chute if I had to do it again, because honestly I didn't venture over there to look at the conditions, there were a bunch of people on the sb's making it up, and none on the chute, so I figured I'd go with the flow.
