A fairly gentle hike led to a QSO with Japan at 3/4 watts, and a brand new SOTA ham radio activation. Summit: W7N/WP-147 8340 Getting there Welp, there's no public transit avilaable to this particular summit, so the gang and I drove. If you're not from the area, and you're able to, plug in the cooridnates of the peak and let Google plot a route for you. You'll also want to download the offline Google maps for the area; there's plenty of phone signal at the summit, but there are places on the drive in where there’s none at all. Google Maps led us through several forks in the gravel/dirt road to a location just to the south of the summit. If you stop where we did, you may notice a set of tire tracks that lead most of the way up to the mountain’s central ridge. They make for a nice easy start to the hike. When the tire tracks peter out, you can navigate the rest of the way up on a variety of game trails. My path deposited me on a picturesque saddle in the ridg...