I guess this brings up a point for my own clarification as well. When your originally given clearance that includes a star, but not given further guidance enroute, would you also comply with its restriction in absence of other instructions? (Not necessarily lost coms, but lets say heavy controller workload, or just general assumptions the controller would make knowing it was given in our initial clearance. Since i may be describing my question poorly, ill give an example.
For example, we normally pick up clearence routing in KJAC that involves the ALPINE 2 departure, Direct Brigham city, Bear 5 arrival into salt lake.
I have never flown the entire star as published, usually assigned different altitudes at the named fixes, but should i not be given those explicit instructions, would I just follow the procedure as published? Even without guidance ENROUTE that specifies “cleared bear 5”.