Found a white iPhone 15 while glissading down the Worm Flows. Last date on the phone shows May 29th (perhaps this is when it was lost?)

Contact me at ajohnmallek@gmail.com if you believe this is yours.

Excellent day to hike, started at 3 AM and summited at around 10 AM.

Found an iPhone on St. Helen Summit Trail Glissading chute

I found an iPhone while glissading down the St. Helen Summit worm trail. If you believe this is your phone, please contact me with details to verify ownership. Let's help reunite this phone with its owner! email me at prasannasp86@gmail.com.

Thank you!

Left at 4am in perfect conditions with a party of 9 to memorialize Fred “Jack” McBride with a trip to the top. He summited 48 times in his long life and spent many trips taking YMCA youth camp participants to the summit years and years ago. He courted his wife of 67 years in the shadow Mt St Helen’s, having met her at the Spirit Lake youth camps where they were working. He led his children and grandchildren to the summit after the eruption and instilled his passion for the mountains throughout the family. The weather was perfect, snow was soft but very accommodating with microspikes. Glissading was boss! After the seismic station travel was all on snow. Bring lots of water - 4 quarts was just enough.

The views were fantastic. Took significantly longer to summit than expected. The boulder and snow fields seem to go on forever and ever and ever. Highly rec gaiters for glissading down, reapplying sunscreen multiple times, and a sun hoody. The sun was pretty intense. 

Glissading was awesome, but make sure you check your track occasionally on the way down to ensure you're following the correct chutes. 

Oh...and I saw a mountain goat! 

We started out at 0500, but after climbing wish we would have started at 0400. We made it through the trees pretty quickly. After passing the chocolate falls, we came to the boulder field and started to encounter some snow, but we stayed out of it. When we hit the boulder field we followed a group to the left, however the better route is on the right. This ended up costing us some significant time, so recommend you stay to the right up the ridge next to the dropoff. We didn't get into the snow until just past the research station. We stopped at the research station and put on micro spikes and gators which worked well. It was a warm day and the ice started melting faster than we thought which slowed us down a bit. Had we started earlier this could have been prevented. The cornice is still very large which obscures the view of Mt. Rainier, but the rim of the mountain is visible as were Adams, Hood and Jefferson when we climbed. The snow was pretty slushy on the way down, but it made the glissading very enjoyable. My watch said total trip was 13.3 miles.