With the warmer weather still holding in before what could be the last winter storm of the year. I quickly got a plan together to check off Stony NW3 aka Horton Ridge. Jumping in the truck loaded up with Janelle and Derek we headed for the trail head.

Trail head? What trail head, we parked at my GPS coardinants and climbed straight up to gain the ridge. This was a grunt, and had lots of complaints from the group. But once on the ridge we made quick time, and enjoyed the hike.

We passed through some very unique rock formations and rock bands before gaining the top of the ridge. Once at the top of the ridge, I setup and started calling CQ CQ CQ. I was able to grab a few contacts quickly but that then slowed down as there was a DX contest on 20meter that day. I jumped over to 40meter to give that a try but the band conditions where not on my side. Hopping back over to 20meter i got 4 more contacts and finished off the day with 8 total contacts. Talking with people from Calfornia all the way to Arizona.

Back down the ridge, with some unique route finding near the end due to being cliffed out, we had a fun easy hike and got more SOTA points.

Thats all for this adventure. 73.