Twee,
There is nothing special about this Chute. It is very similar to Baldy Bowl and has all of the same problems. It is a straight forward poilet march or French step to the top. What complicates this climb is people who don't know what they don't know, the sheer volume of people and fatigue...six miles is a long way to go with 25 lbs. on you back if you are a day hiker and 12 miles before you descend this slope. I have done this in mid-May in a year like this year when there were no more the 6 to 8 people on the Chute both up and down. 3 of them did not have the brains they were born with...glissading and climbing with and glissading with poles.
This accident sounds like people were too close together and in the one another's line of travel. If you have proper separation an accident like this does not occur.
