Okay so thanks to those who chased today, sorry if I just “disappeared” on you, but I did not quite have the juice in the KX2 internal battery to really keep running on SideBand. My battery cut out right as I was giving DL5OAH a 73.
This summit does not have a lot of Beta, but then it only has 1 activation.
It is right off the Via Degli Dei right on the border of Emelia-Romagna and Toscana (sorry/mi dispiaceI know I am mangling the names).
![IMG_4841|375 upload://vr0aTUEsUibVmlhm4BlYLdsdatY.jpeg). What is crazy is on the Toscana side there is a barbed wire fence, so I sent my wife and the stray hiker we have picked up on without me. The poor kid did not know what to think that I was heading off piste…and was quite worried apparently. On the Emilia side there is a nice shoulder that looks like a use trail (or game trail) existed at some time.
It was only about a 15 minute walk to the summit proper, but you can probably make the AZ in much less time. Not wanting to risk dealing wirh barbed wire at the bottom I opted to return via my up path. That said there is a gate for the Roman Road diversion on the uphill side the fence on the Toscany side; if you fancy some off piste/trail route finding down the hill its possible to regain the VDD and not climb a fence. My .02 is this summit is best accessed from Pian di Balestra on the Emelia-Romagna side as it looks like South is a hunting ground and the road is a serious 4x4 road (that was super swampy thanks to all the recent rains).
The summit is treed in. so no real views to be had, reminds me a fair bit of the Appalachians.
73 and if the WX cooperates, i hope to do at least 1 or 2 more (with more juice in the battery).
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