Some last minute weather wisdom from @M0RWX meant I changed my plans to head to north wales and headed to the Yorkshire Dales.
I travelled up late and camped for the night to wake up to a blanket of snow. My plan was to activate 4 hills access via some lanes that had high passes. However all the small roads were impassable with snow, so I has to change plans.
I changed plans to tackle Pen-Y-Ghent G/NP-010 and Ingleborough G/NP-005. Too fine choices in the conditions with the conditions… bright blue skies and a blanket of snow !
My activation on Pen-y-ghent G/NP-010 resulted in the largest pile up on 2m I’ve had. What a great take off and a really good bunch of hams chasing up north ! A very brief foray onto HF to bag a summit point for the 10m challenge and I tried a summit-2-summit with Colwyn @MM0YCJ on Tenerife. Sadly I missed him on 10m, that was the band to use and I struggled to get the conditions on 20m to complete.
Shadow the SOTA spaniel on Pen-y-ghent
A few hours later and I summited Ingleborough G/NP-005. The cold and weather had now come in, which mean’t for a very cold activation.
Ingleborough
Ascending Ingleborough
I just put up a HF antenna worked a pile up on 40m, bagged a couple of stations on 10m and headed off. Thanks to @2E0OMX for a summit to summit on Selworthy Beacon G/SC-005, that completes the SC region chasing from summits!
And big apologies to all the local ham including Phil @G4OBK. It was too cold to do 2m at this point and I expected a lengthy pile up ! So I could’t hang about - the summit of Ingleborogh was cold, several degrees below and more with the wind chill.
To top the trip off, I was treated to a cloud inversion on the way back over the summit.
Cloud Inversion on IngleBorough
A great day in the hills before being hit by storm Bert tomorrow.
