Stage 7: Grandas de Salime - Fonsagrada 28,54km
Today the day was around 8°C with light rain from 1pm onwards, but once it started raining it did not stop.
The road is too muddy but the first 15km are especially hard with that terrain, a matter of concentration to step well.
In the ascent to the mountain range that divides Asturias from Galicia is the Alto de Piedras Apañadas and in the range that leads to the peak there is, again, a wind farm that surprises more the sound than walking among those giants.
As I advance along the path that runs along the wind farm, the summit is in sight, but of course, up there it is a hell of cold, wind and humidity. Where those giants are for a very simple reason, it is not pleasant for an insignificant human being.
The activation of EA1/LU-015 was foreseen after 3 hours from the beginning of the stage and it was more or less like that. Always with the help in 2m of @eb1asa and @ea1cjq in the distance.
The antenna installation is so horrible that I got 3.2 swr deserved on my part but I could not find a way to get the antenna more deployed and I was sheltered from the hut, and at the top there is little time for activation and then continue with the Camino stage.
Tomorrow for the “May the force be with you” we have the last stage and radio activation, before finishing this adventure of combining the Camino de Santiago with my new hobby, ham radio.
And, hopefully the force will be with me, because tomorrow the weather looks bad. I just hope that the E1/LU-033 SOTA can be activated.
