With a total of 350 activations, culminating in his activation of W6/ND-392 (and two other summits before that today!), Joe AA0BV has become the newest Mountain Goat out of the W6 Association!
Joe has been activating in and around the San Francisco Bay Area, California and beyond since 2016 and is always a pleasure to have around. He’s had many adventures on his way to Mountain Goat, including once spotting a mountain lion staking out a summit before he got there! Needless to say, he turned around.
Thanks for the congratulations.
I give my great thanks to Ed, W1EJ who introduced me to SOTA one day over lunch in Petaluma. He introduced me to the concept, the equipment and encouraged me to begin. Ed, W1EJ and I traveled often together and activated many peaks. There were summits we could not have reached without his Jeep! Earlier this year I told Ed that I probably would not achieve my 1000 points until next year and Ed encouraged me to continue and pointed me to the possibility for MG this year. Many, many thanks to Ed, W1EJ - my sponsor, mentor, and friend!
Congrats Joe. Seems like a long time ago we were sitting at the SOTA lunch @ Pacificon and Elliott, K6EL, says we have two half-goats sitting at a table here - and then asked us "what half were we? " “Front half or back half?”
Great job Ed, W1EJ, putting the hoof into the rear half and getting you into Goatdom! Not far behind you and retirement on the horizon HI HI…Great to see you reach Goat knowing you guys down in the bay area have a long ways to drive to get to the high point summits…Take care and hopefully see you this year @ Pacificon…
“Front half or back half?” 