Here's an activation on the way to the coast for after hours or weekends only to comply with the timberland owner. There's a short hike of about 1.2 miles RT and 400 feet of gain. A GPS will be Very Handy to get you to the summit. Head out west on Highway 26 from Portland where your turn south at Milepost 38 to go 3.0 miles into the small village Timber, Oregon.
Here's a drive-up activation on the way to the coast. A GPS will be very handy to get you to the summit. Head out west on Highway 26 from Portland where your turn south at Milepost 38 to go 3.0 miles into the small village of Timber, Oregon.
This was once a drive-up activation that has been gated due to valdalism - it is accessable to non-motorized vehicles (see sign below). (Updated August 2023.)
SeaPac, the ARRL Northwest regional hamfest is June 3, 4 and 5, 2016. We are having a Friday night SOTA gathering, much like the past few years. We have reserved the banquet room at the the same pizza place we have met before - looking forward to seeing SOTA folks there! This year we'll have a couple very short presentations and be sure to introduce everyone.
Place: Pizza Harbor
15 North Edgewood St
Seaside, OR
(503) 738-7210
Time: 6:30 PM
Friday, June 3, 2016
Hello All -
We're looking at another Summit-to-Summit Party (S2S) for the Willamette Valley and Puget Sound on Saturday April 23rd at local noon.
In addition to 2m FM on 146.55 and/or 146.58, we'll encourge some 40m SSB activity to see if the more distant stations might be able to work each other. Details will come later, but see the announcements below from last year to see how things will unfold. That weekend is also the North America SOTA Spring Activity Weekend, so HF should also bring opportunities for S2S contacts across the continent.
On Wednesday, March 2, 2016, I completed my first winter SOTA at Shafer Butte, Idaho (W7I/BC-064). Best way to get there is take the Bogus Basin Road 16 miles from Boise to Bogus Basin Ski Area, then continue about another couple miles to Pioneer (upper) Lodge parking lot. During ski season Pioneer Lodge has open restrooms, lunch room, dining area, and beer bar. From the Pioneer Lodge one can snowshoe or nordic ski up a ski trail or transverse the mountain from about 6,750' elevation for about a mile to Shafer Butte 7,582'.
August 6&7 the airwaves will be busy with three activities involving SOTA. The Colorado 14ers event and the August UHF Contest, PLUS the Western North America Summit to Summit (S2S) Party. Let's focus some attention working Summit-to-Summit in W7, W6, VE7, and anyone else that cares to join.We hope to see many Western NA activations and want to facilitate S2S contacts.
Winter Adventures in Joshua Tree National Park, California. On a recent trip to California to visit family, we took some time to visit Joshua Tree National Park, and Activate a couple SOTA peaks. We made the town of Twenty Nine Palms our base, "roughing it" in the relatively new Holiday Inn Express facility, and making day excursions on February 1 & 2. This is report 2 of 2, detailing Activation of an unnamed peak, Point 5540.
Deep Devil (W7W/KG-119) is a 2,500' 2-point summit located in the heart of the Snoquamalie Forest on private logging lands. With a proper entry permit, the activation zone can be reached by traveling along about 5 miles of gravel logging roads (each way) and about 1,400' of elevation gain. The summit offers broad views north, west and to the Cascade foothills and mountains to the east. Part of the summit is littered with logging slash that detracts from the surrounding beauty, but there are tall trees in some parts of the activation zones to escape the slash and to put up wire antennas.
Winter Adventures in Joshua Tree National Park, California. On a recent trip to California to visit family, we took some time to visit Joshua Tree National Park, and Activate a couple SOTA peaks. We made the town of Twenty Nine Palms our base, "roughing it" in the relatively new Holiday Inn Express facility, and making day excursions on February 1 & 2. This is report 1 of 2, detailing Activation of Ryan Mountain.