Mount St. Helens - Worm Flows Route — Friday, Jan. 30, 2015

South Cascades > Mount St. Helens

We wanted to take advantage of the beautiful weather and low avalanche danger so I took the day off work and we headed down to Mt St Helens. The road to the trailhead was snow free and we really didn't hit consistent snow til around 4500-5000ft. There were decent footholds kicked in and it was really easy to walk up. We started at 6:30am when it was still a little icy so we used crampons and ice axes for the last 1500ft or so to the summit. We couldn't have asked for a better day with clear blue skies, mild temperatures and light wind. We started down from the summit around 12pm and the snow had softened up enough that we were able to glissade part of the way down. We got back to our car at 2:30pm.