As we moved into mid-afternoon on Saturday 13th February 2016, I began to feel rather hungry. Unusually, I hadn't had breakfast before setting off, or during the initial southward drive. My only sustenance had been my periodic portions of soup. I made a mental note to keep an eye out for places I could buy some grub from. I wouldn't find anything until the journey home.

As well as hungry, I was now also feeling tired. None of this suite of hills require much in the way of exertion, but the sleep deprivation was now beginning to bite back. At least Stipserstones is a gentle walk - gradient-wise at least.  I drove off the Long Mynd via Bridges, then up the hill to the Stiperstones NNR car park at The Knolls. The car park was quite busy with several cars, but curiously, I didn't see anyone on the hill whatsoever Although the gradient is easy, some of the underfoot sections are not, with very jagged stones requiring careful placement of feet.

The icy wind was persisting, and so my chosen operating spot was just ahead of the end of the large rock outcrop at the summit, and around 8m almost directly beneath the triangulation point.  10m conditions appeared promising when a monster signal from Rich N4EX greeted my SSB CQ call, but it was all G and GW stations after that. Two of them were S2S - Adrian GW4AZS/P on Long Mountain - Beacon Ring GW/MW-026 on 10m SSB, and Simon GW4TJC/P, now on Cyrn-y-Brain GW/NW-043, on 10m CW.

G/WB-003 - 5 QSOs - 4 on 10m SSB, 1 on 10m CW - 2 x S2S.  Now it was time to head off for the fifth and final summit of the day - Corndon Hill GW/MW-013.