Tag: Boca Hill

Huh?? SlothGoat? What award for Summits on the Air is called SlothGoat?? So I finally hit “Mountain Goat” (1000 Activator points), but on that same activation, I also hit Shack Sloth (1000 chaser points) via an S2S. Shack Sloth if you are a full time chaser is pretty easy to get, but the only time I would chase is to practice some cw or via summit to summit contacts (Log your S2S if you dont). Last fall I realized my chaser points were very close to my activator points, so with a lot of planning, and luck I managed to hit Sloth and Goat on the same activation on top of W6/NS-264 Boca Hill. There was nothing really significant about why I chose this peak. Leading into the weekend and watching the wx forecast, I knew there was a chamce for snow, so I had built 4 different plans/routes based solely upon various outcomes including reactivating the first peak I ever did as a SOTA activator (W6/NS-086 9614), which I activated under my original callsign (KK6TXU). Boca offered me the quickest exit if wx kicked up, and was the safest from an avalanche forecast perspective. It would also have been nice to do a unique peak too, and this activation put me at 110 unique peaks in 120 Activations; a pretty good percentage.

The approach to this peak is not too hard, and another one of those where winter time makes the ascent easier.  Honestly I like the snow covered peaks for approach, I really should just bring all my winter modes with me (BC Ski, BC Snowboard, Snowshoes) and make a command decision on which ascent mode to run.  Sometimes it is nice getting down the hill faster then up.    I parked at the Boca dam and snowshoed over the dam.  In the summer you can actually drive across to the NFS roads in the area.  Looks like there is an area you can park when there is no snow.

 

Today marked the most number of contacts I have made on a single activation, I also managed quite a few S2S, and the bulk of the activation was CW.

Callsign	Band	Mode	Notes
KI4SVM	18mhz	cw	S2S, Complete and Sloth!
K0RS	7mhz	cw
K6ARK	7mhz	cw	S2S, booming in with your QRO
NS7P	7mhz	cw
K1LB	7mhz	cw
N0OI	7mhz	cw
K6CPR	7mhz	SSB	(I still phone occasionally :D)
KD6EOD	7mhz	SSB
NW7E	7mhz	SSB
KD6EOD	7mhz	SSB
K6MW	10mhz	CW
KB7HH	10mhz	CW
K1LB	10mhz	CW	Reno on 40 and 30
AA7DK	10mhz	CW
K6HPX	10mhz	CW
N4EX	14mhz	SSB	Nice to hear you again Rich
W0MNA	14mhz	SSB
W5BOX	14mhz	SSB
W0ERI	14mhz	SSB
AA1VX	14mhz	SSB
KX0R	14mhz	CW	S2S/ Bennett Mountain
KE6MT	5 mhz	CW	might be my first 60m QSO
KG3W	14mhz	CW
K3TCU	14mhz	CW
K0GWR	14mhz	CW
NJ0U	14mhz	CW
VE2JCW	14mhz	CW
W2SE	14mhz	CW
AB0BM	14mhz	CW
N1AW	14mhz	CW
N6DNM	7 mhz	SSB

 

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