Mount St. Helens - Worm Flows Route — Friday, May. 20, 2022

Hiked on 5/20 on a perfectly clear and sunny day. We started at 2am to try to avoid some slush on the way up (which we did). We started in our boots and then used snowshoes pretty much up until the start of the rock portion around mile 3. Then just crampons until the top. The snow was compact until then and then was fresh powder with a few ice patches. The entire last half mile or so was all fresh powder so it was pretty nice to get up, no post holing when we went. We stopped at the crater rim because the true summit looked pretty sketchy with all the cornices about to drop-off. Perfect views of rainier, smoky crater, Adams and hood. I would definitely only do this on a clear day. The hike down was fine until we got to the bottom third, like another reviewer said, it was pretty much all slush so we put our snowshoes back on, otherwise we were pretty much postholing and sliding around everywhere.