Easter Sunday 21st April 2019 - Lad Law G/SP-008 & Pendle Hill G/SP-005

Gig: Joe Longthorne

Venue: Viva Blackpool

I’d stayed over at a pub in Hull after the Saturday gig.  It was another stunning day, and so the drive west was very pleasant.  I told the satnav to drop me on the side of Boulsworth Hill from where a good track leads most of the horizontal distance to the summit.  There’s just a bit of an uphill pull at the end, but one is well into one’s stride by then so it is soon negotiated. 

I elected to just use 2m FM from the handheld in order that I could have time for another summit before work in Blackpool.  In fact, I went very lightweight - no rucksack, no coat, no jumper, no food, no water, no battery, no mast, no trekking poles!  Just me in shirt sleeves, sunglasses and factor 50, with logbook, pencil and FT70D.

Seven QSOs made on 2m FM before the return walk and driving over to Pendle Hill G/SP-005.