{"id":1810,"date":"2025-11-10T04:26:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T04:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/?p=1810"},"modified":"2025-11-11T17:53:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T17:53:49","slug":"w6-nc-499-windy-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/2025\/11\/10\/w6-nc-499-windy-point\/","title":{"rendered":"W6\/NC-499 Windy Point"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is an easy 4 mile hike (8 mile RT) in Mount Diablo State Park (and associated Muir Land Trust segments). The road is mostly easy rolling ridgeline with a steep uphill right at the end. The ridgeline is mostly exposed and I understand it can get quite windy. I didn&#8217;t have that problem, but for a Fall day it got pretty hot. Sun protection and\/or a wind-breaker are probably a good idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I followed AA6XA&#8217;s helpful guide linked on the SOTA page (<a href=\"https:\/\/sotl.as\/summits\/W6\/NC-499\">https:\/\/sotl.as\/summits\/W6\/NC-499<\/a>). There is plenty of parking at Curry Point, and the route is along Knobcone Point Road all the way to the summit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fire road to Windy Point enters the Muir Land Trust for a bit, but goes back into the Park at the end, so Windy Point is good for a POTA activation also.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Made my first contact with Sweden! Excellent signal both ways, which was amazing considering I was running QRP with a homemade 20m dipole about 15 feet off the ground at it&#8217;s highest point. Highlight of the trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an easy 4 mile hike (8 mile RT) in Mount Diablo State Park (and associated Muir Land Trust segments). The road is mostly easy rolling ridgeline with a steep uphill right at the end. The ridgeline is mostly exposed and I understand it can get quite windy. I didn&#8217;t have that problem, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tripreports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1831,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions\/1831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}