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About 0.15 mile before the trail tops a side ridge coming in from the southwest, you face a choice. To reach the top of Silver Star Mountain, go straight, climb over the ridge, and soon intersect the trail coming up from Grouse Vista. Follow this route to the top (see ssss1 for a description). Early-season hikers, however, will discover that even though the trail to this point has been free of snow, much of the rest of the way to the top remains snowbound until early June.

If you prefer to explore a different and less snowy route, veer left (slightly downhill) and make a short scramble on game paths down to a long-abandoned jeep trail. This wildly scenic route cuts across the southeast face of a ridge traversing an open slope carpeted with beargrass. In early to mid-June of favorable years the beargrass puts on a wonderful display of tall white blossoms. After about 0.8 mile the trail loops around the base of craggy Pyramid Rock and then cuts through a saddle in the ridge to an unsigned junction with the trail coming up from Grouse Vista.