Before I get into the hike and activation, I wanted to say, that while I was on the top, I got to see F-16s and A-10s dog fighting above...

For some reason I under-estimate the difficult hikes and over-estimate; this summit was no exception. As you can see from the pics, this...

Ghost town trail is a well maintained dirt road that goes through what is left of the towns of Gleeson, Cortland and Pearce. These town...

This was a longer hike than expected, but not bad (7.5 hours round trip). It had a couple of points where it was steep, but nothing too...

This is the second time I did this summit, so no pics, nothing new to see. I didn't have time to do a new one, but I wanted to get out...

I had some issues on my first attempt at this summit, so I took it personally that I get this activated as quickly after that debacle as...

The tentative plan for today was to try to do two summits: W7A/CO-038 and W7A/CO-045. The road to get to these summits was a 4WD road...

This is the second time I have done this summit, nothing new to report. This is an easy summit, I wish we had more like this around, so...

This summit is east of Granite Peak (I show it in the pics) but unlike Granite Peak this summit was more pleasant to climb. It was about...

This qualifies as the most miserable summit I have done so far in SOTA and probably my life. I hiked in from the west and then tracked...