Four down, one to go. I drove north on the country lanes through Bodfari, Tremeirchion and Rhuallt before looping around above the village of Cwm to the usual parking spot for Mynydd y Cwm GW/NW-076. The sun was now low above the horizon and it was getting chilly. I double-checked that my headtorch was in my pocket and set off along the muddy forestry tracks.  I made the common mistake of being too eager to turn right on a faint path for the final summit push. This led my over tricky ground and under low branches, when there is a much better defined and wider summit path a little further along. There was just enough daylight left for setting up at the summit, but the headlamp was switched on for the operating.

       

The first thing I heard on 24MHz was ZP6CW calling CQ in CW from Paraguay. I answered him and he worked me first call. Bingo! However, despite that, I couldn't get any response at all to my own CQ calls, and my attempts to answer loud CQs from FG (Guadeloupe) and PY (Brazil) failed without even a ..--..  I resorted to the VX7 handheld. Without a proper antenna, this would also be tricky from a densely wooded summit, but fortunately two very local stations were in QSO. I managed to work both of them plus a MW3 XYL of one, and Dave G0BSD in Runcorn, albeit plagued by mike keyer. 

It was quite spooky returning to the car through the wood at night by headlight, but I was on the road by 7.30pm and home by 9pm. It should not be a surprise to learn that I ate my tea and went to bed!  A successful day overall, doing all five of the Clwydians in a day, beating the weather, qualifying all five SOTA activations and harvesting all five multipliers in the SOTA 12m Challenge. Many thanks to all callers.