Hi,
pre-planning for my coming trip to FL and HB.
17/5 2024:
ON/ON-030
18/5 2024:
FL/NO-053
FL/NO-059
FL/NO-034
FL/NO-033
FL/NO-060
19/5 2024:
FL/NO-065
FL/NO-070
FL/NO-068
20/5 2024:
FL/VO-056
FL/VO-060
FL/VO-186
21/5 2024: Appenzeil
22/5 2024: HB/SG-034
23/5 2024: HB/SG-055 ?
24/5 2024: HB/AI-008 and HB/AI-005
25/5 2024: HB/AI-006
Tips and comments are welcome. Especially for the HB mountains. Is there still snow on the peaks?
Tonnie - PA9CW
Tonnie,
Good question, there are peaks and Peaks - and May started this year like April normally does.
So it can still snow overnight up to above knee height, so nothing for sneakers, hi.
73 take care,
Heinz
Heinz,
thanks for the info. Maybe I have to change my plan for the higher peaks…
Tonnie - PA9CW
Perhaps as an indicator, the earliest SOTA activations of HB/AI-002 to date did not occur before the month of July SOTLAS
With the other planned activations, unpleasant surprises seem unlikely.
https://www.myswitzerland.com/de-ch/reiseziele/panoramas/saentis-gipfel/
I made some changes for HB.
Friday, May 17, 2024, I went to Fresnes-en-Woëvre, in northern France. Via ON/ON-030. This was my last SOTA in Belgium, which I hadn’t activated yet. A very steep climb, with tall and stinging plants. Hiking poles are not a luxury. I made 24 QSO’s at 30 meters. WX was vy nice. Later that day, it was raining. Then i drove to the apartment.
Tomorrow some FL/NO summits. If wx is okay….
Tonnie - PA9CW
Wish you GL and gd condx Tonnie!
Vy73 de Fritz DL4FDM / HB9CSA
I did 5 SOTA’s. HF conditons not so good. And not many chasers. But the wx was vy good and sunny.
Today a lot of rain. I will try FL/NO-065.
The wx was not so bad as expected. So I activated 3 SOTA’s.
FL/NO-065
FL/NO-070
FL/NO-068
Because of all the rain, the tracks were not so fine. So I sometimes slipped. But in the end I made te “top”. The one-pointer was hard work for those little points.
The last SOTA had nice view. Finally. All the summits were in the wood, so this one was vy welcome. And even a wooden chair and sunshine……. In the end a fine day for SOTA.
Hb/ai-005 and hb/ai-006 is fine. Picture is 006 last Saturday.
You can see in the picture that on higher mountains you should still expect snow. If you need infos regarding these summits, just ask. 73, Peter
This is Altmann hb/ai-002. i took this photo from säntis hb/ai-001 mid April 2024. As @HB9BCB wrote no activations before July so far. Furthermore the last ascent is t5.
