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We are are tight community activators and chasers that is passionate about ham radio and the outdoors. Please feel free to use this forum to announce and recap activations, ask questions, coordinate` group outings and meetings, and discuss techniques and equipment. Let's share our experiences, communicate and coordinate our activities and have more fun! 73, Walt W0CP

just trying this out -- Bob Witte / K0NR / bob@... / www.k0nr.com

I think this group would benefit from "conditions" reporting so here is my first attempt... Stanley Mtn: W0C/SR-046 Date activated: 5/16/18 Still a snow climb for the first mile or so. Used microspikes for this section in the morning when the snow was still firm. Needed snowshoes coming back down when the snow softened up (post-holed ~ 2ft a few times before I put them on!). You can avoid most of the snow the rest of the way to summit. Mt Flora: W0C/SR-035 Date activated: 5/24/18 Still a snow climb for the first mile or so. Used microspikes for this section when the snow was still firm. Needed snowshoes coming back down when the snow softened up. There is a large steep snowfield on the north side of Colorado Mines Peak that you need to traverse. I only used my microspikes and poles for this section. I was only able to kick one inch steps here so I needed to go slow! An axe would be useful here if the snow is really firm or icy. You can avoid most of the snow the rest of the way to the summit. 73, Brad WA6MM

4-peaks (?) 2-days ...will spot - SOTA-SOTA, Steve/wGOAT

Never mind how he got up there – he was there waiting for me to climb about 3300 vertical feet and 6 miles one-way to activate W0C/FR-127 Signal Mountain NE of RMNP today! What a nice surprise! He was 599 to me on 40M CW! Big signal so far north! I ran the track on Google Maps and it’s 66 miles, with no large mountains in the path, so essentially line-of-sight to Signal at 11,255 feet. Loud! Thanks for staying and making my day Brad! Besides having the right name, Signal Mountain offers a lot – great scenery, isolation, wildflowers, tons of pegmatite loaded with of glittering mica, and lots of exercise! Brad, I didn’t get home until about 7 PM… 73 Carey KX0R -----Original Message-----

I activated Rosalie Peak (W0C/FR-007) today. Man..tough RF conditions today or bad timing. Only made 27 contacts and four S2S. I did manage to work KX0R for a S2S but couldn't find N0TA on any bands...darn!! The wind was blowing a constant 35 mph and my antenna pole collapsed twice....didn't break so all is good! I was QRV for about 1:30 but I eventually had enough of the wind. The route from the Mt Evans road is mostly snow-free. Only crossed a couple of small snow fields with no post-holing. No snowshoes or microspikes required. 73, Brad WA6MM

I activated Mt Evans this morning before all the crowds got there. I plan on doing Rosalie (W0C/FR-007) tomorrow morning. The crowds are coming now so I want to do this area and the Guanella Pass area before the crowds get worse!! Next week I'll do some peaks off of Guanella Pass. 73, Brad WA6MM

You guys may already know this but bushducks.com is a good source for seasonal road info in Colorado. It is 4WD oriented but many SOTA summits are accessed that way (hiking or not). See http://bushducks.com/tripreps/passopen.htm 73, Bob K0NR On 31-May-18 3:07 PM, Brad - WA6MM wrote: I activated Mt Evans this morning before all the crowds got there. I plan on doing Rosalie (W0C/FR-007) tomorrow morning. The crowds are coming now so I want to do this area and the Guanella Pass area before the crowds get worse!! Next week I'll do some peaks off of Guanella Pass. 73, Brad WA6MM _._,_._,_ -- -- Bob Witte K0NR bob@...

CR 306, the road extending from West Main Street in Buena Vista up Cottonwood Pass, will be closed at the Avalanche trailhead for an extensive construction project resurfacing the road and installing bike lanes.For hikers in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness, that means some trails will be inaccessible until the project wraps up in 2019.The Continental Divide Trail, which runs 3,100 miles from the Canada-Montana border to the New Mexico-Mexico border, crosses the road at the Cottonwood Pass summit. Foot travel along the trail will not be interrupted, but the closure of the road means that hikers would not be able to resupply in Buena Vista. Construction will extend from Buena Vista town limits to the county line, and would involve pulverizing the road’s current pavement, which was laid in the 1980s and has seen little improvement since, and recycling it into a base, then putting 3 inches of fresh pavement on top of that. The project will also address slipping guardrails near the Cottonwood Pass summit, inadequate parking at Denny Creek trailhead and haphazard parking at the summit, said James Herlyck, the project lead for Central Federal Lands on the Chaffee County project as well as a concurrent project to pave the portion of the road in Gunnison County. Both projects are being funded primarily by the federal government through the Federal Lands Access Program, which offers improvements for access routes to federally-owned land that are themselves owned by non-federal entities like counties. Chaffee County will pay about $2 million for the project. The Gunnison County initial road paving project is estimated to cost over $27 million, with that county also paying a small percentage. “The easiest resupply point north of Cottonwood Pass is at Twin Lakes. The easiest resupply point south of Cottonwood Pass is the Monarch Crest store (or hitching/arranging a ride into Salida),” said Rachel Brown, the trail information manager for the Continental Divide Trail Coalition. “It’s about 83 miles between those two points.” Closer, albeit more “logistically challenging” access points are the historic mining towns of Winfield to the north of the pass and Tincup to the south, Brown said. The CDT is concurrent with the Colorado Trail for over 230 miles, meeting at Georgia Pass near Breckenridge and parting ways finally in the San Juan Mountains southeast of Silverton. The two trails also diverge at Twin Lakes and rejoin around Monarch Pass. The Colorado Trail is accessible from the Avalanche trailhead, just east of where the road will be closed for construction, and crosses CR 306 inconspicuously just west of Rainbow Lake. Brown said that 70 hikers completed the CDT, which, along with the Appalachian and Pacific Crest trails forms the triple crown of American long-distance through-hiking, in 2017. However, she expects that the closure of CR 306 will most impact those who take on the CDT one section at a time. “I’ve already spoken on the phone to a fellow who wanted to hike from Leadville to Cottonwood Pass, but because of the road closure, he changed his plans and will be using the Colorado Trail Collegiate East route instead of staying on the CDT the entire way,” Brown said. The parking lot for the Denny Creek trailhead, hiking trail and the last point before the road is barricaded for winter closures, will also be getting a facelift as part of the project. The loss of access to that trailhead this summer means that the Brown’s Pass trail, which has offshoots leading to the Texas Creek trail, Kroenke Lake and Mount Yale, will be inaccessible. Mount Yale is the only one of Chaffee County’s 12 fourteeners whose access will be limited by construction, but the 14,200 foot peak can still be reached by the slightly longer East Ridge route, beginning from the Avalanche trailhead. Another popular destination in the area, Ptarmigan Lake, will be inaccessible from its typical route off CR 306, but can be reached from the south via a 4WD trail off CR 344.

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I have multiple email accounts and sometimes it is more convenient to send to this group from an email address other than the one I have signed up on groups.io 开云体育 anticipated this need and has the concept of an "email alias". You can set this at groups.io: click on your name (upper right), then "account", then "advanced settings for email aliases". You can send to the group from your "email alias" and groups.io will accept and process your email just like it came from your primary email address. Any questions, contact me. 73, Bob -- Bob Witte / K0NR / bob@... / www.k0nr.com

Just got a new KX3. After hauling Yaesu FT857/891 up the hill last few times, I gotta go try my new toy! This will be it's first activation. Gonna start with a close/easy one in case of unexpected problems. Expect to be 20 SSB first, then 40 CW depending on bands. I'm leaving Loveland now and expect to be on top around 8:30~9:00 am local time if anyone is around to have a listen. Hope to catch some of you. 73 James KI0KN

You may have seen that the USFS is invoking Stage 3 fire restrictions in the San Juan National Forest. This basically means that the forest is closed to normal use. http://www.kktv.com/content/news/San-Juan-National-Forest-set-to-close-this-week-485125801.html This is clearly a major action. I don't recall the last time this happened. We could see some more of this in other parts of the state. Bob -- Bob Witte / K0NR / bob@... / www.k0nr.com

I am thinking Mt Sniktau (off Loveland Pass) might be a good summit for this weekend. Anyone know the trail conditions? -- Bob Witte / K0NR / bob@... / www.k0nr.com

I saw a report on 14ers.com that Boreas Pass road is now open. Nothing is listed on the official FS website yet. I'm thinking of going up there from the 285/Como side this week. Let me know if you're interested in joining me. 73, Brad WA6MM

I am in Buena Vista for a while and can meet anyone coming this way that would like some company on an activation. Also, XYL and I are hosting a porch party in BV Saturday, June 30 at 6pm. So, if you want to have some fun, do an activation on Saturday and stop by the party for tamales, pie, and ice cream before heading home, or stay overnight and do another one on Sunday! 73 ps the address is 421 Gold St, 81211

Here's the flyer for the Colorado 14er Event, August 4 & 5. This will be a big weekend (and week) for SOTA activity. Please spread the word. 73, Bob -- Bob Witte / K0NR / bob@... / www.k0nr.com