Slides and Powder in Swine Chutes

Rode first two Swine Chutes Sunday. When approaching second from west entrance, remote triggered size 1.5 avalanche approx 20' across, 20-50cm deep, didn't pick up much extra snow but rode out to alders in photo several hundred feet below. Slab was wind effected storm snow sliding on smooth wind compressed, convex bed surface. Roped up and ski cut rest of chute and cleared hang fire on west side. Center/east chute was stable with no wind effect and less defined transition between storm and old snow. Face shots all the way down until serving our 2 hour sentence egressing through alder jail.