Mount St. Helens - Worm Flows Route — Sunday, Apr. 25, 2021

Slept in my car on Saturday night. Around 25 vehicles that consisted mostly of hikers with a few snow mobile rigs. Shelter is open and provided a nice place to warm up for a rainy Saturday evening. Early Sunday, we woke up around 4am ate breakfast and hit the trail at 5:30am. I chose to carry my downhill skis and boots which added 20lbs in my pack. With snow on trail from the very start we put on our micro spikes which provided ideal traction the whole way up. Weather was suspect with light snow for most of the route with intermittent visibility as low as 15'. Some groups chose to turn back due to the lack of visibility. Towards the top we needed to create our own foot holds due to snow and wind covering the group ahead of us. We made it to the summit in around 5:30 hours. Skiing down was a blast and only took us around 30 minutes. Definitely worth the extra weight up.