Banana Chute - Icy boot pack sections

Travelled to Fissile from Flute, Banana Chute boot pack was pretty soft snow until about 50m from the ridge entry, it turned to almost sheet ice/deep ice crust. Was harder travelling through without cramp ons on the snowboard boots, luckily my mate had cramp ons his ski boots and was able to lead punching good foot holds. Top of the ridge has obviously seen a lot of wind/solar affect. Was hard icy until you arrive at the too of the Chute. Ski cut showed no instability. Left side of chute quite hard packed/crusty. Some small sections releasing 2-3cm wind crust layer on more aggressive turns, not propagating. Bottom half of the chute way better snow from wall to wall. It has recovered well from the slide reported in another MIN from a week ago, soft good turns in deep ish powder, a few debris felt here and there but nothing that felt too dangerous to hit on the exit.