Friday, August 10, 2018

2018-08-09 Timber Top Mtn


2018-08-09 Timber Top Mtn., Summits on the Air with the Ham Ninja

This morning’s summit is W7A/AP-015 - Timber Top.  The road up into Crow Poison starts about 2 miles south of alpine and is an easy drive up to the ingress point.  As you may have seen from yesterday’s post, it rained (with hail and lightning) yesterday so the ground is moist.  I met an older fella who collected a couple of stumps to make bowels.  I went to school with his kids.

The hike to the summit wasn’t steep but because I couldn’t find a trail up, I had to cut through a new thicket of aspen that was so thick I could barely make it through.  Although the pine will take 100+ years to come back, the aspen will be full grown in just a few.years.  It was probably 72 degrees with a high overcast to start, then it cleared and then it started clouding over for the afternoon rains. 




The radio setup was easy.  I guess the only factor that comes into play is when I pulled out the very small paracord to lash the vertical to a fallen tree limb.  All of the shrubs and fallen trees with branches are sporting about a million grappling hooks, snagging the line like crazy.

I got a couple of summit to summit contacts in Arizona and Georgia along with a lot of the same people that have been following me all week, getting chaser points.

My egress out of the area was a little easier (see my track).  I went down the east side around the aspen thicket and found a few game trails and eventually some overgrown jeep trails.  I decided to make a loop through the crow poison area looking for raspberry bushes.  I didn’t find anything but burned out areas.  Entire hills were covered with aspen however.  I’m guessing the shade might make it easier for new pines to grow.  I didn’t see the road that curves around to the old CCC camp.  I’ll have to take a drive up that way tomorrow and look for berries.


Today’s Contacts




(Alpine Area)


Association: 
 USA - Arizona
Region: 
 Apache County
Lat / Long / Height: 
 33.7958°N   -109.1231°W   2847m / 9340ft
Locator: 
 DM53kt Show »
Points / Activations: 
 10 points,  activated 13 times
Latest Activation: 
 2018-07-26 by KB7CWV
1.6 mi hike
IAF 33.80557, -109.15467



Summit
Date
Time (UTC)
Call Sign
Band
Mode
W7A/AP-015
09/08/18
1600
K6FW
14MHz
SSB
W7A/AP-015
09/08/18
1608
W5BOS
14MHz
SSB
W7A/AP-015
09/08/18
1609
N0EMU
14MHz
SSB
W7A/AP-015
09/08/18
1610
WA2USA
14MHz
SSB
W7A/AP-015
09/08/18
1610
KC0PBR
14MHz
SSB
W7A/AP-015
09/08/18
1611
N4EX
14MHz
SSB
W7A/AP-015
09/08/18
1611
KI6EAB
14MHz
SSB
W7A/AP-015
09/08/18
1612
W0MNA
14MHz
SSB
W7A/AP-015
09/08/18
1613
W0ERI
14MHz
SSB
W7A/AP-015
09/08/18
1613
KB7XL
14MHz
SSB
W7A/AP-015
09/08/18
1614
K6MW
14MHz
SSB
W7A/AP-015
09/08/18
1614
K6EL
14MHz
SSB
W7A/AP-015
09/08/18
1615
N3NNU
14MHz
SSB
W7A/AP-015
09/08/18
1616
NG6R
14MHz
SSB
W7A/AP-015
09/08/18
1617
N8BB
14MHz
SSB
W7A/AP-015
09/08/18
1617
KD0MQO
14MHz
SSB
W7A/AP-015
09/08/18
1618
W2SE
14MHz
SSB
W7A/AP-015
09/08/18
1619
AA1VX
14MHz
SSB
W7A/AP-015
09/08/18
1620
N6DNM
14MHz
SSB
W7A/AP-015
09/08/18
1621
WB0KIU
14MHz
SSB
W7A/AP-015
09/08/18
1622
VA6FUN
14MHz
SSB
W7A/AP-015
09/08/18
1623
KI4TN
14MHz
SSB
W7A/AP-015
09/08/18
1623
K1LIZ
14MHz
SSB
W7A/AP-015
09/08/18
1630
N3NNU
7MHz
SSB
W7A/AP-015
09/08/18
1634
W7RV
7MHz
SSB
W7A/AP-015
09/08/18
1635
W7RDB/P
7MHz
SSB
W7A/AP-015
09/08/18
1636
N7SP
7MHz
SSB

Loadout for today:

      Yaesu FT-891D HF Radio at 100 watts
   30’ of coax feed line
      Yaesu FT-2DR HT
      3 L of water (8 lb)
      SOTA Dog (her feet are sore so she didn’t go)
      iPhone with All Trails, MotionX GPS and sota goat
      MFJ-939Y auto antenna tuner for 891
      Trekking poles
     Packtenna.
   Extra LiFePO Battery

73,
N1CLC
Christian Claborne


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