During the winter the only way to access White River Campground is a 16 mile snowmobile ride from Crystal Mountain Boulevard to the White River Campground. Starting the tour you need to start heading up the Glacier Basin trail and just before the first avalanche swath drop down to the creek. During the Summer this is the Emmons Moraine trail but it will be buried under snow. With a few well placed switchbacks make your way up and over the moraine before heading down to Ghost Lake. Heading to the western edge you should have open trees leading up to the Emmons Glacier. Sticking on the lookers right start climbing the glacier but make sure to give space between you and the slopes to your right incase they slide.

At around 9,200 foot start making a hard traverse lookers right towards the entrance ramp to the Interglacier. From here just keep following the ridge until arriving on top of Steamboat Prow. Now you have a perfect view of the entire northeast side of Mount Rainier National park with the Interglacier directly below you. Drop in and enjoy laying tracks on the blank canvas all the way into the basin. Once the slopes start mellowing out make sure to keep up your speed and with a little bit of luck you can ride down to 5,800 feet. Now you need to switch over to skinning for a few seconds heading north to get onto the Glacier Basin Trail.

Since you climbed up the Emmons Glacier you will be breaking trail down the Glacier Basin Trail. While it is somewhat easy you will have to be careful that you are staying on it. If you have a skier with you it makes life much easier but if just snowboarding you will have to bootpack numerous spots. Soon enough you will be exhausted and arriving back at the White River Campground. I’ve done this trip many times and 90% of which we were snowmobiling back in the dark.

To see my trip in the area and more photos check out this link https://www.whereiskylemiller.com/mt-rainier/interglacier/