Great snowshoe. Drove up the unploughed highway 20 and parked at the bottom of Forest Road 200. Around 6 miles round trip.

Follow my footprints.

We drove until we hit the unplowed road and parked at the start of the parked snowmobiles. As the description states, we spent the first 2 miles or so on the unplowed road, not using our snowshoes for this part on the way up but soon realized how helpful they would have been. We turned left to continue up the road, putting snowshoes on at this point, and met the trail head after 2.1 miles of hiking.

Views were beautiful the whole way, with the mountains peeking out from behind the trees. The trail itself was a gradual incline with a clear path, even without miles markers. In spots where the trail had lots of sun, the snow was less compacted and made walking more challenging as the snow pack was soft beneath our snowshoes so we were sinking a bit. But it was mostly smooth sailing to the falls!

Having snowshoes on this trail was definitely helpful, but probably not required. They allowed us to move faster than we would have without them, especially on the way down. Highly recommend this snowshoe!

Hiked up from Early Winters. Highway 20 is closed at Early Winters but very compacted from snowmobile traffic, so was easy to hike on with just boots.

Quite easy to find the trailhead and follow the trail all the way to the falls. Looked like we were the first to travel on it since the 23 Feb storm but the trail was well compacted and quite obvious under the top layer of snow. In fact it was so well compacted I hiked the whole way, didn't use snowshoes (my strap had broken). Underneath the larger trees the snow was thin and a bit icy, but rough ice and not slippery. Some genuine powder just below the falls at 3400'. 

Didn't get a great view of the falls themselves as the snow on the cliffs looked very sketchy so we did not approach closely. But great views of the surrounding mountains! 

Lovely little hike and great that you can reach it from Early Winters without a heli or snowmobile assist. Nice change of pace from the flat trails in the Methow.