This summit was activated by me in a solo expedition on Thursday 26th June 2003.   

Approaching via Bridgnorth and then down the B4364 to Cleobury North, I turned right here and followed the lane around the north of the hill until I found the start of the PROW at SO 595 878. I followed the winding muddy track up through the trees, emerging with an army of flies swarming around my perspiring head. At the top of the first field, I should have bore east along the track to meet the access road for the wireless station at the summit, but I instead followed the route marked on the map that cut the corner, but in fact was not defined in any way and resulted in difficult walking over chopped down trees, uneven ground and long grasses.  By the time I had reached the trig point, the swarm of flies buzzing around me was starting to make me feel personally insulted. I lost them by sitting down on the ground, leaning my back on the trig, and covering my head with my coat, plucked out of my rucksack - quite a useful trick this.

The summit was activated in just over 15 minutes, with 2 stations who had worked me on Black Mountain WB-001 the night before, and one that I had worked earlier from Walton Hill CE-002. During the descent, my fan club of flies reconvened and resumed that task of trying to land on and sample my perspiring face. Two kamikaze pilots even achieved spectacular direct hits on the roof of my mouth and the back of my throat!

I finally drove back to Macc via the M54, A446 and M6, getting home at 11.30pm!   Overall, despite the challenges and nightmares, a satisfying 2 days with 9 SOTA points in the bag.

Callsign today was MX1SWL/P, club callsign of the International Short Wave League (ISWL) - see my radio page for more details.  Thanks to the following stations worked, all on 2m FM with 1 watt: