Selkirk QRP

Summits On The Air

Portable amateur radio from mountain tops
2 posts

Bucket List Peaks

A list of peaks I'd like to climb before I expire along with personal notes on how I plan to tackle them.

Mt Crocker:
Currently no one has activated this remote 10+3 point peak in the Eastern Sierras. I'd like to be the first (if possible), as the summit and I technically family. My father and I hiked to the base of the summit in the summer of 2023 with the intention of reaching the peak, but at the snowline we realized how woefully unprepared we were to to traverse the ice sheets and decided it would be best to just enjoy the alpine lakes instead. Next time I'll make sure to take an ice axe a...

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Green Monarch Ridge SOTA Activation (W7I/NP-098)

After getting my feet wet activating Horn Mountain as a drive up peak, I decided it was time to shake off the rust and go on an actual hike. This particular SOTA activation required a bit of map cross-referencing as the route to the top wasn't immediately available on the Sotl.as map. After checking Google Maps I was able to confirm that the trailhead did indeed exist but the satellite image of the trail itself couldn't be followed to the summit. My usual map of choice OpenSteetMap had no trail available either. This prompted me to start scouring the web for other map websites, ultimately dis...

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