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SOTA/POTA Trip Report: Santa Fe Mountain (W0C/FR-042, US-4400 Arapaho National Forest)

I finally made it out for a SOTA activation yesterday--my first activation this year, I'm sorry to say.  I activated Santa Fe Mountain (W0C/FR-042) for SOTA and tried to get a dual POTA activation, but unfortunately I only got 8 QSOs which is enough for SOTA but 2 short for POTA. Oh, well....! My friend Endre VA6BGE, who was visiting Denver from Calgary, joined me for the activation. I chose Santa Fe as I wanted to do a peak that was challenging but not crazy, and Santa Fe looked like a reasonable one to activate. While we were successful, it was definitely not easy! We left my house in Littleton CO around 7am on a clear, sunny Sunday. The weather forecast was really good--highs at altitude around 55F, sunny, no rain/lightning forecast. Based on Walt W0CP's and George KX0R's great writeups, I was able to easily find the recommended parking spot at 39.70761,-105.4349, which is about 5 minutes off of I-70 exit 248 (Floyd Hill / Beaver Brook). As described by previous folks, y

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