It's approximately 5 miles from the Placer Creek boatlaunch parking lot, and I'm surprised more people don't up up here! Yes, it requires a big chunk of the winter for the river to freeze up nice and solid, and biking is very difficult in an area that typically gets dumped on several times a week all winter. But even with high winds, skiing to Skookum Glacier seems to always have plenty of powder.
In early 2017, the area managed to go almost an entire month without getting snow, so everything was packed down by snowmachines, and fat bikes, so the biking was actually very easy to both Skookum and Spencer Glaciers.
From the Placer Creek Trailhead, head up Placer Creek until the creek gets within 50 feet of a railroad bridge. The underpass under the railroad is about 7 feet tall, and this is typically the easiest route to get to Skookum. But there is also a shorter route through a field, about a mile closer to the trailhead, that may or may not be packed down by the time you head up there.
As I got up there, there were several snowmachines that were sledding down the glacier from up above, apparently doing some tour skiing.
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