OE/ST-009, Gr. Knallstein, 2.599m above sealevel, was one of the “unexplored” higher summits in northwestern part of Styria until I decided to climb up there yesterday.
Almost 1500 hm, minimum 5 hours ascent and 3,5 hours decent may have been the reason, that nobody activated this summit before.
WX-outlook was encouraging although high temperatures were forecasted but no danger of thunderstorms.
Starting very early at 3:00 utc to avoid hot sunshine passing a few small lakes I reached the summit after 5,5 hours out of breath and power. But a grand view and 23 qsos on 40m were worth taking all my physical efforts to do this first-activation. Unfortunately I had to decide to go qrt without qsying to 20m, avoiding a situation out of power a second time this day.
My conclusio: in comparison with other SOTA-associations, in Austria it needs much more energy to get up to a “10 pointer-summit”
well done franz, congrats on yet another first activation … btw. here is a picture from my 10-point-activation today. i only needed to climb about 600 altitude meters from planneralm to get to the summit Hochrettelstein OE/ST-057
Hello!
Of couse, sota activity asks some efforts.
2 weeks ago I was on F/PO-172 1540m asl and 1400m ascent and 4 points. Not only high summits are hard to reach.
Best 73.
Andre f5ukl
Here is a photo next OE mountains Kosiak 2024m, which I visited yesterday with my sister. For more than 900m of ascent we needed a little less than three hours walk and really enjoyed the trip.
S2S with Martin OE5REO on 10m was a candy of the day. After eight years, this was the second activation of the OE / KT -93.
But enjoy it ! 
