G/LD-010 – St Sunday Crag

G/LD-010 – St Sunday Crag

03/05/2018

Wet, wet, wet

The day started out dry with the forecast of showers later in the afternoon. We parked the car on Dunmail Raise NY 327115 then made our way up past Raise Beck towards Griesdale Tarn. 

My GPS track

The plan was to activate St Sunday Crag then pick up Seat Sandal G/LD-022 on the way back. It was 5.31km to the summit and the weather was still holding up but with an increasing amount of dark clouds.

On our way past Raise Beck

Dunmail Raise below

Griesdale Tarn with St Sunday Crag in the distance

Towards St Sunday Crag

Looking back at Griesdale Tarn

Looking towards St Sunday Crag just before Deepdale Hause

Fairfield left with Griesdale Tarn in the distance

A few rain drops hit our faces as I called out on 2m with the FT2D.  Val had gone to look for the Geocache as Barry and I shared the contacts to qualify the summit. As soon as he had qualified Barry went on 23cms on his handheld for a few pre-arranged skeds.

11:21z	G4WHA/A	144MHz	FM	Geoff
11:23z	G1OHH	144MHz	FM	Sue
11:25z	G0TDM	144MHz	FM	John
11:27z	G6LSO/M	144MHz	FM	Colin
11:28z	MW0ISC	144MHz	FM	Steve
11:28z	G4ZRP	144MHz	FM	Brian
11:30z	G7CDA	144MHz	FM	Douggie
11:31z	2E0BLL	144MHz	FM	Mike
11:32z	G7OEM	144MHz	FM	Tony
11:34z	M0NOM	144MHz	FM	Mark
11:35z	G4RQJ	144MHz	FM	Rob
11:37z	G4WHA/M	144MHz	DV	Geoff diff mode
11:38z	G7CDA	144MHz	DV	Douggie
11:39z	M0NOM	144MHz	DV	Mark diff band
11:40z	G1OHH	144MHz	DV	Sue diff band
11:47z	M1EYP/P	144MHz	DV	Tom s2s..my first on DV

My Log

11:22z	G4WHA/A	144MHz	FM	GEOFF 5/9
11:24z	G1OHH	144MHz	FM	SUE 5/5
11:24z	G0TDM	144MHz	FM	JOHN 5/7
11:26z	G6LSO/M	144MHz	FM	COLIN 5/9
11:28z	G4ZRP	1240MHz	FM	BRIAN 5/7
11:33z	G4WHA/M	1240MHz	FM	GEOFF 5/7
11:35z	G3RQJ	144MHz	FM	ROB 5/2

Barry’s Log

Mark M0NOM in Windermere had warned me that there was a storm brewing and heading our way. I had a good run of chasers but as I was finishing with Sue the wind picked up and it began to rain ...we looked towards Fairfield G/LD-007 and black clouds were rolling towards us…time to move.  As Val had been busy with her Geocache she had not taken any pictures of us operating….too late now as we beat a hasty retreat back down through the horizontal rain to the shelter of Deepdale Hause. 

Wet wet wet

St Sunday Crag in the mist and the rain

As we reached NY 344120 and the track up to Seat Sandal it was obvious that the weather was too bad to activate our second summit so it was back down past Raise Beck to the car.

(VHF)  Yaesu FT2D (5watts) using RH770 telescopic antenna

Thanks everyone for the contacts

73 Allan GW4VPX and Barry M0IML