Medicine Point is a popular US Forest Service rental lookout. The hike is pleasant on a well-maintained good-grade trail, FS #181. I set up SOTA operation a couple of hundred feet away from the lookout to not disturb a young couple that had rented it. Much of the southerly ridge from the trail junction to the lookout is within the activation zone.
Forested Summit
Birkenfeld Mountain, October 22nd 2023
Getting There: DO NOT USE GOOGLE MAPS TO GET HERE!!!! Google maps will lead you straight to a gated road. Have your GPS open or a map next to you while you try to navigate this. From highway 14, turn North on Rock Creek Driver like you're headed to Skamania Lodge. Continue half a mile and then turn left on Foster Creek Road. Next turn left on Red Bluff Road which will become CG-2000. Continue a little less than a mile until you see the intersection with CG 2022 splitting up the hill to the left.
Whetstone Ridge, MT | October, 2023
1.7 miles, +884 ft, -47 ft; On ATV Trail
Driving Directions from Checkerboard, MT
Little Blacktail Mountain, ID | Oct 2023
When I visited Northern Idaho, I also had the chance to activate this summit.
The route to the summit starts on Hwy 95, turning East onto Blacktail Rd. This is followed around until it once again turns East onto Little Blacktail Rd. Then follow the pit run (larger gravel) covered road to the top.
There are 3 or 4 repeater towers up there so I parked next to the large propane tank on the southernmost one and headed south to put some distance between us. Even so, 20m was very noisy. I didn't have a problem on 40m or 15m.
Whaleback, OR | July 2023
Turn off ORE-62 Crater Lake Hwy onto NF-68, and then just follow NF-68: right at 42.8641, -122.5061; bear left at 42.873, -122.4977; and follow the pavement to the end; the turns are mostly obvious after here, Caltopo's map is quite good to Abbott Butte Trailhead; when forest management crews haven't closed the trail for fire and burnt tree hazard mitigation, you can combine this with that hike.
Round Top, OR | July 2023
This is a quite decent set of forest roads up to a peak that'll require just a little bushwhacking.
5220 (Watson Ridge), OR | July 2023
Route
Here is a link to the route we (KC7JNU, KK7DAK, KK7IUD) followed to and from the peak as well as additional data; there is a screenshot below of the same route. As can be seen, we started and ended our route to the north of the peak.
Captain Gray Mountain, OR | September 2023
Captain Grey Mountain is a road walk of a few miles gravel through a mix of forest and clear cuts.
signal peak wa | september 2023
Summary - A drive up on the west end of the Toutle range.
Peak 4700, WA | Sep 2023
Just east of Mount Rainier National Park and north of Highway 12 is this bushwack activation.