Early Morning Spire, North Cascades National Park

Early Morning Spire is an 8,200-foot mountain summit located in North Cascades National Park, in Skagit County of Washington state. The peak lies 0.29 mi west-northwest of Dorado Needle, 1.05 mi north-northwest of Eldorado Peak and 1.08 mi southeast of Perdition Peak. It can be seen from the North Cascades Highway, west of Marblemount at a road pullout alongside the Skagit River. The first ascent of the peak was made in 1971 by Richard Emerson and Tom Hornbein via the Southwest Face. They made a chilly bivouac near the summit, which is how the peak's name came to be. Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains into Marble Creek, a tributary of the Cascade River. ()