Crystal Mountain Snowshoe Trails

We drove up to Crystal Mountain Ski Resort to try our the newly marked snowshoe trails. To access the trails we parked in the upper C lot. There was a mixture of clouds and blue sky when we arrived.









We started up the lower Blue Bell Loop, then went up the Mary Lee Trail and turned up the Bullion Loop, going up the right side of the loop and came down Ted's Trail back to Mary Lee and then down the upper Blue Bell Loop. We missed the turn down towards the trailhead and continued down a closed forest road for quite a ways. Eventually we returned up the road and found a ski path that took us down through some housing area and ended up in the F lot. We rode the shuttle back up to the C Lot. Overall we snowshoed about 4-5 miles and gained about 800 ft. Fun day!

At the start of the trail we went up some ski tracks, then broke trail as we choose different routes to take.

Peek of a distant peak

We had the sun trying to break through the clouds while it was snowing for awhile. We took turns breaking trail.

I love being out in the fresh snow.

Occasionally there would be a break between the trees and we could see the ski area across the way.

small stream near the trail

heading down what ended up being a closed forest road

another view across to the ski area













Was very happy to find a bridge over Silver Creek on our cross country trek back to the parking areas.