Mount St. Helens - Worm Flows Route — Wednesday, Jun. 14, 2017

South Cascades > Mount St. Helens

Spent the night at the trailhead to get an early start, 4am. It got light by 5am ish. The trail starts in a forest and turns in to a rocky/snowy canyon before the snowfields. We hiked on the rocks until the weather station. We put our crampons on there because the snow was so hard. Please! If you are going, be prepared! Crampons are NECESSARY to feel stable and secure. The second to last slope is so so steep and rough, but I mean they all are😉 Got to the summit in 5 hours, down in 4. We didn't glissade much because of control issues, even with ice axes. The snow also got slushy as we were going down and we saw a lot of people coming up with improper gear. Careful- the map on wta for this trail leads you to climbers bivioc..I ended up using all trails and it took me to the right place. Have fun and be safe!