On Sunday March 19 W7UM, Mark, logged enough SOTA activator points for Mountain Goat.
Mark and I walked through and over almost 2 miles of mud, ice, and then snow, including breaking trail through moderately deep snow on snowshoes, up the cold northeast side, to reach the summit of Taylor Mountain, W0C/FR-061, where we set up at 2784 M, among deep snow drifts. With the wind whooshing through the pine trees, we enjoyed a sunny time, right around 0 C, contacting numerous chasers and activators all over.
We had the mountain to ourselves, never mind that it was Sunday, and it was a classic SOTA Mountain Goat initiation! The views of the high peaks on the frigid Divide were spectacular.
Thanks to all who chased us and shared our fun time! Please congratulate Mark on truly earning MG in the spirit of SOTA. Very few of his summits have been easy ones!
Congratulations Mark, I was also able to work you on (MG) W0C/FR-061! I’ve chased you many times as you have chased me as well. Several S2S Q’s in the log.
73, AL N1SMB
Congratulations Mark great effort to make Old Goat.
You surely had a great partner in Carey/Geo to tag along with you on the activations.
Here’s to MG x 2 and I hope to work you some time now condx on higher bands are improving I have worked a couple other U.S. activators recently on 17 or 15m CW.
Its a couple more weeks until my SOTA season will start for 2023 but on the chase at home all the time.
Regards
Thank you for the S2S Sunday while I was on East Twin Sisters, W0C/FR-037. I chased you and KX0R on this summit in 2020 and 2021 and I finally got up it Sunday. I ran out of battery before I could work KX0R Sunday afternoon. I’m over halfway to mountain goat.
