Friday 8 January 2021

SOTA Mt Perisher VK2/SM-007

After stopping overnight at Jindabyne headed up to Perisher Valley, to climb Mt Perisher for SOTA. Note there is a $17 park entry fee for a day trip into Kosciuszko National Park. Sign at Perisher Valley.


Drove to the base of the Eyre Tbar lift, which like all the lifts is shut down in the summer. There is the Alpine Eyre Cafe at the base, so you can get a coffee here before or after activating.


Just to the left of the cafe a faint track used for maintenance of the lift. Started walking up here. Avoids some scrub under the lift at the start.


Eventually joined up to the track under the lift


The lift terminated near the top of Mt Perisher, along with several others running in different directions.


The summit is then just a short scramble through some rocks


Reached the summit. The trig is still here, but missing the Perisher Valley flag that was here last time.


Some views from the top, down to Perisher Valley


Looking the other way towards the main range and Mount Kosziusko


For a change not too windy on top, so set up the squid pole here. Poked it into a rocky crevice, some creative use of bungy cords to keep it in place...


SWR fairly good on 40m


View of the antenna near the trig


Got on 40m. Able to spot myself on SOTAwatch. Good signals from chasers

VK3PF
VK2VH, VK4AAC/2
VK2IO
VK2YK/5 Park to Park in  VKFF-1755 Upper Gulf St Vincent Marine Park
VK2YW
VK3YV
VK5PAS
VK7LTD
VK2HRX
VK3MDH
VK2MK
VK2TER
VK3FSTU
VK2MWP
VK2VRO S2S on VK3/VN-027 Mt Gordon
VK1AD

At this stage the LifePO4 4200 maH battery I was using was almost flat, so packed up and headed down.

Some flowers just below the summit


View going down


Mid way down, road visible


In all took me about 35 minutes to get up and about 20 minutes down. It is steep! From 1800m to around 2000m elevation over 1.1 Km.






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