Three of us snowshoe 3 huts in one trip today. Our origin plan was snowshoe to Snow Bowl hut only, as two of us have been showshoe to high hut 3 years before. But when we started hike at 9:30am, we felt lile we have enough time, so decided to hike high hut and snow bowl hut, when we reach the 1.5 miles, there is a sign, shows the miliage to 3 huts, we though we can add the yurt at this trip also. Finally, we ended showshoe to 3 huts at the same trip, Strava recored 16+ miles, 3700+ ft gains. (3 cellphone recorded slightly differently)
High hut has the best view for Mt. Rainier, but it's too popular, most of the snowshoers went there, there is no view to Mt. Adams and very limited view to Mt. St Helens. I highly recommand Snow bowl hut if you only plan to visit one hut, it has view to those three mountains, and with much few people.
We left high hut at 1 around pm, arrived the yurt at 3:40pm, arrived snow bowl hut at 5:30pm, and watch the sunset at the gazebo. We own the yurt and the snow bowl hut ourself. BTW, the gazebo is open, it's pretty warm inside. There you have good view of those 3 mountains.
I lost a pair of prescription sunglass (black frame) on the way back from snow bowl hut, if someone found it, please leave message to me or email: monsterl@hotmail.com.
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