Mount St. Helens - Worm Flows Route — Saturday, Jun. 8, 2024

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.