Snow Bowl Hut Snowshoe — Tuesday, Apr. 2, 2024

Decided at the last minute to hit the trails at MTTA and got to the trail head at about 5pm. Road was fine, overall just some easy to navigate portholes. Saw 4 cars in the lower parking lot and 2 in the upper parking lot. Snow patches started about 1/2 mile in but easy to do with just my hiking boots. I really didn't decide whether to go to High Hut or Bruni's Snow Bowl Hut until at the junction mid-way, and ended up taking the left toward Snow Bowl Hut.  There were still intermittent bare ground until the prayer flag area, then it's more consistent snow after that. I did start to post hole, at times to my mid-calf, about 1/2 miles from the hut. I think if it were earlier in the day when snow was more solid, it would have been fine, but I went in the late afternoon after a day of sun. I think microspikes would also be helpful earlier in the day; I brought them but never put them on since the snow was quite soft by the time I was there. Saw one family at the hut, and they were going to spend the night, but I didn't see any other people beside that.