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Silver Star-8876 ft (from Goat Peak in 2007)
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3:30 am ---make coffee, load car
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6:55 am, TJ's "happy dance" at the silver star creek pullout
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The first mile and a about a 1000 vert with skis on our backs
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Finally, skis on our feet
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First view of Silver Star (ski to col and climb peak on left hand skyline)
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Getting closer
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Vasiliki Ridge
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Skinning up through larches at ~6000 feet
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Where's Waldo (or TJ in this case)
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contouring towards eastern lobe of silver star glacier
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choose your slot, 1-3
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Looking back at Delancy Ridge (TJ chasing back on)
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Ever upward (about 5500 vert from car to summit)
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Robinson in the background (looking NNE)
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Final headwall to the col (note sluffs only on lookers right)
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TJ & North Cascadian Splendor
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Skintrack stoke
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Not far now
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Putting in the skin track on the far right to preserve our damp powder
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Not used to breaking trail after the Ortler tour
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At the col, ditch skis, grab ice axe
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TJ comes to the front to finish the job (and grab his first top 100 on skis)
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TJ leading us to the summit
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TJ contemplates the final move...
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TJ---A' cheval
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TJ Summit Shot
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Kangaroo Ridge and Liberty Bell (looking west)
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I made it
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Looking from the summit down to our skis on the col
