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Hello and thanks for stopping by my personal website. I hope you find some stuff of interest to you.

You can follow me on my latest Summits on the Air activation via my Garmin InReach share.garmin.com/kg6mzs and via APRSdirect as KG6MZS-7

John Muir Trail #3

Some recent Summits on the Air activations:

Summit 3,788

A very pleasant spring hike through flower fields. 18 MARCH 2023 W6/CT-167 Elevation:3,788’Route: Motorcycle trackHike Distance: 2.5 miles round trip Elevation Gain: 635’Navigation: EasySteepness: Steep in placesVehicle: Passenger carRoad: PavedCell Coverage: Excellent (Verizon), APRS ExcellentHike basics I hadn’t been out for a SOTA activation in weeks due to the heavy rain and snow in Southern…

by wringmaster

Monte Largo

Looking southwest at the station on the summit. 25 FEBRUARY 2023 W5N/SI-014 Elevation:7,710’Route: Use trailHike Distance: 2.6 miles round trip Elevation Gain: 675’Navigation: A bit trickySteepness: ModerateVehicle: Passenger carRoad: PavedCell Coverage: None (Verizon), APRS ExcellentHike basics Due to heavy snowfall in New Mexico I limited my activations on this trip to some of the lower…

by wringmaster

Rough and Ready Hills

Here’s the station on the summit with the Organ Mountains near Las Cruces in the background. Looking east. This was one of my more goofy days is pursuit of a SOTA summit. Originally I had thought to try and activate a summit in Texas. I spent the night in Las Cruces with the idea of…

by wringmaster

Here are my summit ratings from no stars (a one off) to four stars (a classic)

Here is a video of my latest adventure into the wilds of western Nevada: