Mount Townsend — Monday, Apr. 28, 2025

We arrived at the TH around 10 AM, one other vehicle in the parking area, vault toilet was locked. We hiked the trail to Windy Camp where we stopped due to the hard travel through the 3-4 ft of snow covering the trail. The snow was soft enough so our poles broke through and we did a lot of postholing. We first encountered snow on the trail at about mile 2 and 4300' in elevation. There are a few trees across the trail but we were able to get over all of them. Two or three more weeks of warm weather should get more of the trail melted. Folks have been climbing up the hillside and not using the switchback trail in many sections. This is causing erosion and is not good.