After Action
The roads up to Pajarito Peak, W5N/SE-029, were dry and in fairly good shape. We parked at the com site then walked north along the ridge to set up ops away from the towers. Weather was nice. We
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George Yoakum
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#4189
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SOTA Activation
Wednesday April 16, 2025? W5N/SE-029 Pajarito Peak
We will depart my QTH by 0800? en-route to parking. QRV around 1700.
All roads up to summit are SUBARU capable. Weather NICE!
Nice close summit
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George Yoakum
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#4188
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Re: 9700 report
Maybe … was up Cerro Grande yesterday, and the gate for the road going down toward St Peters was open. From up top on Cerro Grande, I could see a vehicle parked at the gate to St Peters where the
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Fred Maas
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Re: 9700 report
Maybe until the April 15th? Driving through the Valles Caldera recently I noticed the gates to St. Pete's and Peralta Ridge were still locked and, if I recall correctly, I saw a sign at one that said
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Mike Walsh
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#4186
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9700 report
The "area of peak 9700 may be "open," but the ROAD from the ski basin to the
parking for the trailhead, is not. It is gated and locked.
fd
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Fred Maas
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#4185
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W5N/SS-037 (South Guadalupe Mountain) and W5N/OT-006 (10837)
SS-037 was straight forward. Trail was perfectly clear. Sunny and 60ish.? Bands were not doing well this morning. 10 QSOs.? This would be a perfect Mt. Bike summit.? All but the last approach
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KF0RIG
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#4184
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Los Lunas (Tome Hill) SL-015 report
Coupla things.
On the east side there are three deadend parallel roads. Houses are being
built on the upper two. We parked on the lowest and most east, which is
gated, walked south on this road,
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Fred Maas
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reading about the...
Dire wolf, for obvious reasons, in Wikipedia came upon this: A dire wolf
fossil found in Hermit’s Cave! “Kurtén designated a
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxilla> maxilla found in Hermit's
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Fred Maas
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#4182
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Re: SS-036 and 7
Thanks Fred.? I am looking forward to warmer summits.
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KF0RIG
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#4181
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Re: After Action W5N OT 025
South Guadalupe SS-037
Easy drive to parking and a nice hike up an old road to ridge line then ridge line to summit.? Have fun.... George
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George Yoakum
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#4180
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SS-036 and 7
While I have not done these peaks, they do not appear to pose significant challenges either to vehicle or hiker! Reports from NM5S and K6TAA are very reliable. – fred kt5x/ws0ta
I would
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Fred Maas
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#4179
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Re: After Action W5N OT 025
This looks like it was a great summit to activate.? I do not have the 4wd needed per your recomendations.
I would like to hear yours (and others) thoughts on North and South Guadalupe Mt (SS-036 and
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KF0RIG
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#4178
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After Action W5N OT 025
Cool and cloudy as Don and I headed out from my QTH this morning en-route to pick up Alan at the train terminal in Santa Fe. With Alan on board we headed out to summit trail head parking. see GPX file
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George Yoakum
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wolf
There apparently are only 169 mexican wolves known in New Mexico. Mostly I
think in the bootheel, the gila, and into Arizona mtns. They need to be in
a pack to bring down their normal big game like
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Fred Maas
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#4176
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Double SOTA Goat Day April 3rd
This posting is meant to "alert" all our W5N friends about our Big Day!
Shane/N0QLR and I/KD8EQA are both at 997 activator points, and hope to join the herd this Thursday, April 3rd.? We will be
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Raymond Gierlach
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#4175
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Activation Plan
W5N/OT-025 Cerro de los Taoses? Wednesday April 2, 2025? Weather will be cool with temps in the 40's under partly cloudy skies and winds about 10 mph.
Alan suggested this one as a nice lower
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George Yoakum
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#4174
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more history
New Mexico history:
https://archaeology.org/issues/march-april-2017/features/new-mexico-pueblo-r
evolt/
Something more about the Jemez, Cochiti, San Ildefonso, and the reconquest.
I saw the
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Fred Maas
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#4173
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Jemez history
First the good news, Steve Gachupin, King of the Mountain, was able to
return home today after nearly three months in hospital then assisted care.
Steve is six time winner of the Pikes Peak Marathon
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Fred Maas
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FW: [W5N-SOTA] An unsuccessful outing
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2025 7:00 PM
To: Fred Maas <just.one.hill@...>; John De Primo <k1jdjohn@...>
Subject: Fwd: [W5N-SOTA] An unsuccessful outing
Can one of you FWD this to
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Fred Maas
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#4171
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An unsuccessful outing
After replacing the local repeater antenna at PA-001, I set up for SOTA. Sent a few CQ's, but then let the smoke out. :(
It's a QMX. Has been working fine for almost a year. I suspect the BS170
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Steve N2IC
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