12.5 miles of hiking • 2500' elevation gain •
We did a fun 12-mile loop on the southwest side, starting at the Redrock Pass trailhead, ascending north up the Butte Camp Dome trail, and tromping through snow on the Loowit to the Loowit re-route. From there, we did a short bushwhack south along the drainage to meet up with Trail 237 (Toutle Trail) and then floundered to find Trail 231 (Kalama Ski Trail) back to the trailhead. (The 231/237/238 trail intersection is confusing. The actual trails weren’t expressed correctly on any of our four maps.) A [really] early winter storm dropped snow was low as 4500′; it was between 4″ – 6″ around 5,000′.
