The weather wasn’t too bad 25 - 35 mph winds on the top, and sunny periods. Temperature around 6c at the car at the bottom of what passes for an English Ski centre.
This summit was very, very wet and boggy - I was very pleased with my decision to wear my Aigle wellingtons for the 35 minute walk through what passes for an English skiing centre and the ski tows and on to the trig point. Thousands of hill farmers can’t all be wrong!! 
It was far too cold in the wind to sit near the trig point so i went a few yards./metres to the east and found a ‘comfortable’, spot in amongst the banks of peat and gullies and made got myself as comfortable as possible before self spotting from the comfort of my bothy/office.
Above - my office in amongst a peat hag
Almost 1 hour later I had 43 QSOs in the log, including 3 X S2S one of which was MW0JSB/p operating from GW/SW-002 - Waun Fach in darkest Wales.
All QSOs on 7MHZ, 10mhz & 14mhz.
Below = The summit cairn including a tray containing grit, probably medicated for grouse. It seems marking these with a white stick is pretty much universal
During this activation I had two or three callers sending their callsigns on top of each other. Each time I asked for these chasers to wait and asked for calls from one country only, yet each time the same strong chasers repeated their calls. Which bit of ‘wait’, don’t people understand?
Not for the first time did I forget to drop a link in my dipole when changing from 7mhz up to 10mhz. It still got me 3 or 4 replies until I realised that was the cause of some very poor signal reports on 10mhz.
Another caller whom has chased me before and with whom I sometimes chat to from my home QTH started to initiate a chat with me, even though I was in the midst of a run of chasers - never mind his morse is good and fast so it didn’t take long but I did notice that the number of waiting activators had gone .
I’d also appreciate it if I reply to a call and my reply contains an error its either because it wasn’t sent clearly in the first place, or I simply misheard it for some reason. If that happens when I reply please reply back using your call again so I can log it correctly. Thank you.
*Below - the views of the ski slope - This isn’t Moritz. *
Radio Kit
Venus SW 1B 3 band. carried in a foam padded plastic box with pencils and a pen.
You-Kits HB 1B 5 band boxed with pencils and/or Pen (carried in a tupperware style box lined with foam)
Two linked dipoles 1 X 7, 10, 14 mhz and 1 X, 10, 14, 18, 21 mhz.
A 4m pole plus a 45 cm length of stiff black plumbing pipe which I use an a pole support and into which the pole fits into.
2 X 3 amp lipo batteries although I rarely need to use the spare
A small Russian ‘spy’ key and a Palm radio paddle with me which sometimes use… (carried in a tupperwear style box lined with foam along with a short length of antenna wire, ear buds, and a watch set to UTC)
A small pr earphones
Office Kit
A5 log book + rubber band to stop pages being blown over.
An A4 board vinyl covered with the callsigns & names of regular CW callers in alphabetical order (I’m not good at memorising calls and names)
Umbrella. Yes, I probably get some funny looks but its an excellent wind/rain shelter and I also use it inside my bothy bag to keep the bothy bag off my head and give me a little more space inside.
A ‘Bothy‘ bag which I believe is a two man one. But I wouldn’t want to share it - its rather cramped….
A very thin (3mm) bit of closed cell ‘karrimat’, enough for me to sit on and keep my bum and legs off wet ground and one or two much thicker (3cm) bits to sit on…. (I find the kind you buy at gardening shops quite good)
One light weight army style poncho (in a bag) to use if I decide not to use the bothy bag (not always taken)
Clothing = What I wear when setting off, plus:- in colder weather I’ll carry a full length zip over trousers; a Goretex jacket; A reasonably thin down or polyester filled jacket to wear inside the office (carried In a waterproof bag) ; fingerless mitts + thin Goretex overmitts (in cold WX)
Miscellaneous
Swiss army knife, one or two bungee cords & a couple of spare tent pegs, Sometimes one or more “boil-in-the-bag’, chemically activated hand warmers.
Silva compass and chinagraph, or other pen capable of writing on anything - such as vinyl covered maps. A map - my primary navigation tool if I need it. I only use a paper map on the hill. (They don’t run out of battery power which is one of the frequent reasons for mountain rescue callouts).
A good/powerful adjustable head torch and small high powered hand torch. (If I expect to be out in the dark)
Including the 35 ltr rucksack total weight is around 7.5 kg.
Note:- I rarely take food or something to drink unless I’m doing more than one or two summits in one day’s outing. There’s plenty to drink in the hills. A small easy peal orange will do fine if its warmer.
I generally do not carry a 1st aid kit when I’m on my own although I do carry one if I’m leading a group or using/carrying an ice axe and crampons - which is extremely rare on SOTA activations!!
Oh, and an antique I-phone 6.