[Matt]

At the Mountain View restaurant in Silverton after climbing Morning Star:

Before dinner:
Randy:  "I'd like a burger deluxe with cheese."
Waitress:  "Round here we call that a cheeseburger."

During dinner:
Waitress (taking a picture of the group):  "Everyone smile and say bullsh##."

After dinner:
Randy (gesturing to the unfinished plate of fries):  "We did our best with the fries."
Waitress:  "City boy."

There was also a road walk, post-holing uphill, summit in the clouds, glissade downhill, another road walk, cool terrain some of the time, cool people the whole time.

Someone will fill in the details eventually.

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“As beacons mountains burned at evening.” J.R.R. Tolkien

[don b]

Wow, the posts began before I even got home!

[Magellan]

I would like more details than the pleasant dinner conversation. 

[Randy]

Whoa! 5 posts before I even had a chance to dial up the site!!

[Yana]

[Tazz]

wow tr done already huh?   

[Sore Feet]

I didn't think Silverton was even populated, much less by witty waitresses in a restaurant I've never noticed before.

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[Yana]

[Matt]

Okay, a quote from mountaineering part of the trip:

Yana (brandishing her bared ice axe):  "If anyone even thinks of going up the wrong gully, I'll kill him right now so I don't have to miss the summit waiting for him like the idiots who went up the wrong gully on my last attempt."

Okay, that's a paraphrase, but it's only slightly exagerrated.

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“As beacons mountains burned at evening.” J.R.R. Tolkien

[Layback]

Looks like good times.   

[dicey]

My pics-
Over half of these were taken by Yana with my camera since hers had a fit or something, and I wasn't inspired by the fog/clouds to take many.  

Back to the notch

descent

descent 2

Janet ascends

cornice

City Boy Smile

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[Yana]

Magellan, and anyone else that cares: there is a great route description in this previous Morning Star trip report.

Partners in crime today: Matt, Tazz, dicey, don b, cartman, Randy the trail breaking machine, PiB, and Mesahchie Mark.

Here are some of my pics:

The road walk to the trailhead:

Morning Star and Sperry

Del Campo from the valley of the South Fork Stillaguamish:

969_DelCampo

Not the Route

Morning Star (the summit is toward the middle and has a big cornice):

Morning Star Peak

Cornice

Up up up...

Almost there!

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[Guiran]

Way to go! 

[EastKing]

Man, that was an awesome trip.  Looked like fun! The pictures came out great! How does Morningstar compare to Vesper in views, difficulty, etc? I did Vesper last year and fell in love with that mountain and that area.

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[Yet]

Those are awesome, Janet! 
Looks like sooooo much fun. 

City boy can glide.