Date: 30-012-2013 10:34-12:53 UTC
Joint activation with Paul HB9DST just before the end of 2013. My first snowshoe tour in this winter season, cold (-5C) but very nice WX. In summer, it is possible to drive up to Tierfäderenegg from where the summit can be reached in less than 30 minutes. In winter however, the upper part of the road to Tierfäderenegg may not be reachable by car, so the best option is to park at Unter-Hirsch, near the small church. There is plenty of parking space there; as it does not look official however, I asked local resident for permission to park, which was kindly granted.
Until the hut at Ober-Stock the snowshoes were not needed, we had to put them on for the last few 100m to the summit only. At the summit, the WX was so nice, we stayed for more than 2 hours and racked up our S2S score.
A nice and easy summit and a good choice to start into the winter season. Many other SOTA summits can be seen from the top (Grosser/kleiner Mythen, Roggenstock, Biet, Grosser/kleiner Aubrig).
QSO: 63 (15 on 40m, 42 on 30m, 1 on 20m, 5 on 12m)
S2S: 12
Rig: KX3, 12W, Ant: 10m Vert.
Hiking distance: 3.6km
Hiking duration: 1h 31min
Ascent: 408m
- Small church at Unter-Hirsch. Parking is available behind the big barn to the right (Photo HB9DST)
- Ober-Hirsch (Photo HB9DST)
- The 30min to Tierfäderenegg seemed a bit optimistic to us (Photo HB9DST)
- Church and parking from above (Photo HB9DST)
- Grosser and Kleiner Mythen in the Background (HB/SZ-019 and 020, Photo HB9DST)
- HB9TVK (Photo HB9DST)
- Stock (view from West, Photo HB9DST)
- Nice view from the summit down to Lake Sihl
- Panorama to South (Center is Biet, HB/SZ-016)
- Biet (HB/SZ-016)
- Paul HB9DST at work
- Paul’s EndFedz 20/40 setup (Photo HB9DST)
- Peter HB9TVK at Work (Photo HB9DST)
- Working S2S (Photo HB9DST)
- Fun with a young cat at the parking lot (Photo HB9DST)