Hello everyone,
Please join me on video #2 (out of 3 ) from my vacation to Tenerife EA8/TF. This time I will take you along to the second highest SOTA there called Guajara EA8/TF-002.
Activated multiple times in the past as this is a well marked and from my point of view easy summit. I read some reports from previous activations and have again to realize that hiking difficulty is a very subjective.
It took me 1 h 32 min to the summit approching from the west and looped over and down on the eastern side. Track can be found on SMP and sotl.as.
The actual struggle was the parking situation. Around noon so many people are stopping there at Parador hotel to take pictures of El Teide.
But you can see all that in my video report:
And of course some pictures:
View to summit. Lot’s of visitors at carpark
Robust vegetation at Parc National del Teide
And views
View down and over to El Teide
Summit cairn
10m J-Antenna for gd DX
Nice protected spot for activation
Rain and clouds near coast but sun up at high plateau
Btw. Europe is DX from EA8 because it is on the african continent:
73 Joe