My vacations began on 4th of August. I drove from Lecco to Bockenem in Germany with Eleonora and Zac. This was the first stop over of the tour.
DM/NS-163 Hammersteinshöhe
In the late afternoon we had planned a walk on this hill close to the town.
We reached a cement trigger point with some orientation difficulties. The app View Ranger was very helpful to find the right path.
I started to call cq in 40 cw, the prop was down but I was able to put in a log 4 valuable cheasers.
OZ/OZ-001 (Yding Skovhøj)
During the second trip day we had a break along the way to Hirtshals. In addiction to being the Denmark highest summit, Yding Skovhøj is also a interesting archeological site.
The prop in 40 cw didn’t offer much, 3 cheasers and I answered an one call for validate the activation.
LA/VA-095 Refstiheia ABORTED
Refstiheia is very close to Feda town, it was a perfect break point from Kristiansand to Jørpeland.
We chose the path starting near the church, it was a wrong choice because it was too long for our time schedule. The right choise would have been from the north side.
LA/RL-044 Lauvåsen
It was the first hike of the tour.
I drove to Holta along Holtaheia street. I had to pass through one gate to reach a parking. I didn’t know if I was allowed to open it, but fortunately I met other local hikers.
LA/RL-042 Preikestolen
In the list of must to do, we left in early morning to avoid the rush time of tourist.
After a ritual pics on the cliff we climb up on the top.
20 mt band made me to put in log only 2 qsos so I decided to pass in 30 cw.
The down hill was exhausting due to a flow of people that climb up.
LA/RL-037 Vestre Reinaknuten
It was our favorite excursion, we could feel the wild norwegian nature. Breathtaking surroundings!!
LA/RL-060 Barkafjellet
We walked with rain, wind, fog and mud. No doubt it was my most damp activation ever.
I putted a minimum qsos for validate the activation.
With this a finished my activation near Jørpeland.
The second week we changed location, we stayed in an apartament near Tjensvoll.
LA/RL-113 Sørafjellet wrong summit, my fault and LA/RL-011 Bjørndalsfjellet right activations
We started from parking in Gramstad town. Following a gpx track, which I had saved as rl-113 and rl-011, we reached Mt Dalsnuten, even if I was convinced that it was LA/RL-113 but Sørafjellet was 3km away. I’m sorry for the cheasers @hb9czr @ea2lu, @hb9bhw, @hb9mkv and a s2s with @hb9bin but the activation isn’t valid.
After coming back to the car, we continued to Bjørndalsfjellet.
On the top a very strong wind blew, I was struggling to hear the QSOs, it was necessary to lie down and put my ear near the radio. Very annoying position!!
LA/RL-024 Vestbøvarden
An easy hill reachable crossing fenced field with unconfortable wood stairway.
LA/RL-023 Hodnafjellet ABORTED
we gave up to hike due to a massive deployment of aggressive cows that barred the path, we tryed to outflank but the feaver to finish in a cul de sac, it made us to give up.
LA/RL-022 Mastravarden
Another summit with Angus cows. The farmer adviced to visit Klosterøy area. We found a wonderful landscape and monastery.
When we came back I stopped in a place near the summit and I run up without Eleonora and Zac attemping a quick activation.
After 20 minute I run down with activation completed.
LA/RL-063 Vedafjellet
In late afternoon a nice hike with Kjetil LB4FH, we worked with only one station in 40 ssb.
We didn’t stay too much time on the summit due to a boring wind.
LA/RL-110 Stralaus ABORTED
LA/VA-085 Simonskyrkja
A break during travel to Kristiansand, the last day in Norway
I wanted to try again LA/VA-095 failed on the first day in Norway but looking on Sotamapping I choosed this one.
I reached the top from the north side path, the last step is a monolite and to facilitate the climb there is a fixed rope.
OZ/OZ-007 Knøsen
A short walk, about 15 min from the parking.
I worked in 30mt, too traffic on other band due to a contest
Many thanks to all cheasers that made my activations possible and to Kjetil LB4FH and Tor LA9XGA for advice.
Mange takk!
73 de iw2obx Roberto