A summit that I hadn't yet bagged as a multiplier in the challenge was the relatively local Black Hill G/SP-002. Awaking early at 5am on Saturday 1st March 2014, I drove up to Reddish Tesco for a sandwich and then onto the A635 up through Stalybridge, Mossley and Greenfield. I parked in the usual area opposite the Pennine Way flagged path to the summit.

       

This path was treacherously slippery with the flags encrusted in smooth ice. As such, my walk to the summit was carefully slow. 12m netted 20 QSOs, with 7 on CW, 10 on SSB and 3 on PSK31. Summit-to-summits were had with Mickey 2E0YYY/P on Shining Tor G/SP-004, and into Greece (SV/MC-005) and Romania (YO/EC-252).

       

Despite arriving at the summit in frozen fog, this was soon burned away by the rising sun to reveal a beautiful morning. The return walk was much more straightforward in the absence of any remaining ice on the flags. Even better when I came into the "home straight" and noticed that there was a butty van in the lay-by! A bacon, black pudding and mushroom barmcake and a cup of tea was my indulgent reward before driving back to Macclesfield.