The slope I was about to ride looked suspect - somewhat wind loaded hanging field rolling off into very steep terrain.  I chose not to gut the intended line and instead I made a few hard turns on a safer looking subridge. The  wet slab broke loose about 30 feet to my right - in the middle of the originally intended line.  I let it pass and it took the majority of the snow in the chute down with it, piling up about 6 feet deep at the bottom.  This one started out as a pretty small and shallow slab but it brought down a lot of thick heavy snow made a pretty big mess at the bottom.