High Hut Snowshoe Washington

We've had lots of fresh snow, with high avalanche warnings. So we headed up to one of the Mount Tahoma Trails in the Washington State Forest outside of Ashford. The trail head is about 9 miles from Hwy 706. We choose to hike up to High Hut. It's about 8 miles round trip with an elevation gain of 2400 ft.

The road was only open to the lower Snow Park parking lot. We didn't need to put on our snowshoes until we reached the upper Snow Park parking lot.

 Then we had lots of fresh powder to snowshoe in. We were the first ones up the trail today. The higher we climbed, the deeper the snow was. About halfway up, we met a couple snowshoeing down, who had spent two nights at High Hut, this gave us a nice trail to walk up.

It was a beautiful winter wonderland today!

 The last mile is a bit of a climb, 800 ft up to an open ridge. When you see this sign, you are almost to High Hut.











 High Hut over looks a beautiful vista, and on a clear day, there is a great view of Mount Rainier. Today, we mostly saw clouds. We enjoyed to opportunity to eat our lunch in the warm, dry lodge out of the wind. There is no charge for daytime use.

We got a few glimpses of the valley below.

Happy that we made it High Hut today, and heading back down the trail.