Black Hills SOTA trip of 19 summits
I just returned from a month-long road trip west that included 17 summits in Black Hills and Wyoming. That brings me to 1,154 points, 168 activations of 95 unique summits activated, When you do that many summits in a short time, they start to run together. So I'll run through my log and photo album with some notes on each summit. I'm going to start with my second-to-the last summit, Red Mountain W7Y/SW-022. This was the high point of my trip, hiking up to the summit at 10,500 feet. That's the highest altitude I had hiked to, and cam almost three weeks into the trip. Living at 500 feet, it's safe to say I'm not used to high altitude. A few years ago the wife and I spent a day hiking in the Medicine Bow Mountains at 9,000 feet just a few days after leaving home. That got me a mild case of altitude sickness, and reminder that you can't just to to high altitude and hike. So this year I started by spending 10 days in the Black Hills of South Dakota, camped