{"id":3209,"date":"2026-10-12T01:13:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T01:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/?p=3209"},"modified":"2026-10-12T01:21:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T01:21:53","slug":"w6-ns-160-sardine-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/2026\/10\/12\/w6-ns-160-sardine-peak\/","title":{"rendered":"W6\/NS-160 Sardine Peak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After doing Babbitt, I followed Trosi rd that comes off of Smithneck up and around near Land Peak (which I didn&#8217;t have time to hike, and over to Sardine.&nbsp; This route is 2wd capable with medium clearance.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The road to the lookout goes into the AZ before you get to the gate.&nbsp; The gate was closed, but no problem, I pulled out sparky, a vertical antenna, and a chair, and walked the .25mi to the top and setup.&nbsp; I spotted SOTA and POTA by accident and had the biggest 20m CW pileup of my life.&nbsp; The chasers were hungry my friends.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I headed back down the road and took Henness Pass back to 89 rather than go all the way back to I80.&nbsp; It was a pretty trip, requiring medium clearance in 2wd.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Route from the 80 to Sardine is below<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-baede7d6-e792-42fd-8199-968a949126d2\" href=\"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/rt-w6ns-160-sardine-peak.gpx\">rt-w6ns-160-sardine-peak<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/rt-w6ns-160-sardine-peak.gpx\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-baede7d6-e792-42fd-8199-968a949126d2\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The route below takes you from the road coming off of Sardine back to the 89 starting from 39.51137, -120.17687 on Henness Pass Road..<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-342a3df5-22cd-45e1-9926-1e62b56f65c2\" href=\"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/henness-pass-to-89.gpx\">henness-pass-to-89<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/henness-pass-to-89.gpx\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-342a3df5-22cd-45e1-9926-1e62b56f65c2\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All driving referenced for this trip was done with <a href=\"https:\/\/HamNinja.com\/margaret\">Margaret, my Subaru OBW<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Road conditions can change after winter snow melt and heavy rains so be warned.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":3216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tripreports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3209"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3218,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions\/3218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}