https://video.benmook.com/videos/watch/750b3566-c0f7-4c36-8b73-9463bc86516e http://blog.benmook.com/w6-nd-285-3951/ This was our second summit of the day, having just come from Mesa Benchmark. While most of the trails in the area are in pretty good shape, driving the trail to the bottom of this summit was pretty rough in some places. I was happy to have 4L in two spots, although, I sure you could just “send it” and it would have been fine. I’m assuming there is a better way than the path I took. The hike starts out pretty steep, tapering off to a flat ridge before one last final climb to the top. It’s around 1/2 mile one way, but a tad over 500′ of elevation gain. I setup my broken antenna which only works on 20M and started calling CQ. Made several S2S contacts to Washington State and Colorado which is always a treat. After exhausting the chasers and packing up everything, we headed down the hill the way we came, then headed back to our camp. https://sotl.as/summits/W6/ND-285 Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:06:27 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://video.benmook.com https://video.benmook.com/lazy-static/avatars/298a662a-dfdd-4a9f-b98f-8ffd38337b70.png https://video.benmook.com/videos/watch/750b3566-c0f7-4c36-8b73-9463bc86516e All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://video.benmook.com/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.