Weekly activations of Mt. San Cristobal are great to keep myself and my dog Lucho fit.
Today’s ascent to Mt. SanCristobal was done while monitoring my heart beat rate through a wrist pulsometer I have owned for long and haven’t been using much lately.
I took the usual steep direct path from the village of Berrio-Zahar to the summit.
The begining put my heart beat rate soon at about 145-150 bpm.
As I continued the ascent at a steady good pace the heart beat rised to 150-155 bpm until more or less half of the ascent. About 16 minutes time.
The second half of the ascent is steeper and I monitored my heart beat rate rising up to 160-165 for about 20 minutes and a maximum peak of 167 bpm.
The last 3-4 minutes of the ascent were covered with snow and so it was the summit.
As soon as I switched my FT-470 HH on, I copied Iratxe - EA2DNO/P on 145.525-FM activating EA2/BI-010, so my very first was a Sota to Sota call to her.
We completed the S2S QSO, exchanged greetings, comments, 73s and I QSYed up to 145.550 to call CQ SOTA.
5 local friends from Pamplona came back to my call.
When no more calls came to me, I QSYed back to 145.525 and Alberto - EA2DCA/P was activating now EA2/BI-010. I called him and we completed the second S2S QSO of the day and my last QSO of today’s activation.
I started with S2S and finished with S2S on the same summit. That’s why I say it was a S2S sandwich today for me from EA2/NV-119.
This is today’s log:
Thanks to all my chaser friends and also Iratxe+Alberto for your S2S.
On my descent, which was done, as usual, as fast as I can, according to the steep and sometimes muddy path conditions, my heart beat rate was at about 145 bpm.
Ascent plus descent total time was 1 hour, not counting the 15m aprox in the summit doing SOTA activation.
My wrist pulsometer sais I burnt 752 Kcal and 37 g of fat.
Best 73 de Guru - EA2IF