Mount St. Helens - Worm Flows Route — Friday, Apr. 25, 2014

South Cascades > Mount St. Helens

We camped at the trail head on thursday night. It was 40 degrees and cloudy. It rained during the night but was dry by the time we woke up at 0430. We got on the trail by 0530. There were only patches of snow at the beginning of the trail head but once we exited the tree line we had to put on snowshoes. We switched back and forth between snowshoes and climbing over the big rocks along the ridge. Above 4800' the sun was shining down and we were melting. It made climbing up the snow hard due to the snow being so wet and heavy. Once we got to the top of the boulder field we kept sliding down in our snowshoes, our mistake was not bringing crampons so we decided to turn around there. It was a good choice since the clouds were rolling in. When we got down it had snowed about a foot and the entire trail was covered in snow back to the parking lot. There were also high avalanche warnings for the entire weekend.