Took a friend out to get some snow experience and boy, she sure did! Went just a short way (approx .8 miles) up, breaking trail in 6-12in of lovely fluffy powder with harder crusty snow of various depth and softness underneath. Wind was pretty intense, carving beautiful drifts and curling snow-nadoes high into the air, and we turned around quickly due to the concerning creaking of bending trees and reports of worsening road conditions - which ended up being a good choice as even I-90 had considerable ice. Parking lot was plowed and icy but drivable with caution. 

I made a counterclockwise lollipop-ish loop of Mount Washington and Change Peak today. I wanted to try out a new pair of snowshoes. The day started foggy/sunny with plenty of peek a boo-cloud inversion views, but by time I reached the top of MW it was full on socked in with light snow (high winds) the rest of the day. 

The Mount Washington trail is majority hard packed snow and ice all the way to the top, ok to do with just boots. There was one stretch that went straight up a slope, a winter route cutting switchbacks buried in the snow I figured. The top was very cold and windy, the snow was coming in.. Heading down to the 5010-510 from the summit is where I put on the snowshoes. I followed a lone set of tracks seemingly placed earlier in the week (thanks to whoever did that!) to the junction with 5010-350 and then over to the path up Change Peak. After summiting Change I made my way back down to the road and followed it to the junction with the Olallie trail. This takes you down to a short 5010-370 road then to the Great Wall trail, which connects right back up with Mount Washington trail. Snow for that entire snowshoe section: 3-5 feet in areas, mostly powder and more came down today. Between the lone track and my addition however there is a somewhat decent path to follow. 

Spikes and/or poles recommended for the descent down Mount Washington- I used just poles and almost slipped multiple times. It's never fun from Owl Hike spot to the TH in my opinion. 

8 other hikers seen (2 of which were winter campers). Also: found a set keys at the TH- Toyota fob w/2 house keys. This was handed off to the Ranger down at Homestead Valley TH if you are missing them. 

RT 10.35/3398ft 

My group hoped to enjoy the view from Mount Washington during the predicted partly sunny skies, but sadly that never happened! We started around 8:45am with a few other cars in the parking lot, and within an hour were surrounded by thick clouds. It's okay though, because this trail is absolutely beautiful in the snow.

There are a few trees down across the trail that can be navigated relatively easily. We all wore microspikes the entire time. One group member lost one of his spikes towards the end of the trail, please let me know if you happen to find it! The trail does cross a few steep slopes, so be sure to check the avalanche forecast before doing this one. Toilet at the TH was open and stocked. Will definitely be giving this one another go during a clear weather window!

We went there today. Arrived at the trailhead at 8am. The parking lot snow was cleared. After 3 miles the snow was deep and no people walked. So we put on snowshoes. It was hard to break trails but it was fun. Lots of people riding have snowshoes. It was hard. Recommend everyone brings snowshoes in case.

We arrived at Mount Washington TH at 8 this morning. Snow in the parking lot was cleared but the short access road from the main road to the TH was covered with slashy snow. (It could have been better when WA Park cleared snow at the parking area they could have cleared snow on the access road)

We followed the path created by snowshoe people last few days. As we climbed up, the snow got much softer and easier to walk. The clouds got cleared a bit in the mid-morning and the temperature raised so it was not so cold. It was almost a perfect winter hiking day, We did not encounter one person on this hike. The mountain was beautiful and we could see the surrounding mountains at the summit. It took seven hours and 20 min for the round trip including 30 min lunch.