{"id":578,"date":"2025-08-11T22:59:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T22:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inventwave.com\/w6test\/?p=578"},"modified":"2026-01-11T04:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T04:33:09","slug":"w6-cc-014-cuyamaca-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/2025\/08\/11\/w6-cc-014-cuyamaca-peak\/","title":{"rendered":"W6\/CC-014 Cuyamaca Peak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Steep mountain bike ride on a paved road<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday evening, August 8, 2025.  We left from our campsite at Pasa Picacho Campground (#8).   Although this is a paved road to the summit, only emergency and service vehicles are allowed.  Instead we took our mountain bikes, leaving at 4:30 pm to avoid the mid-day sun, and stopping every 0.5 mi to catch our breath.  The road ended at a large dirt pad.  There was a commercial antenna above us but didn\u2019t seem to interfere with our communications.\u00a0  We were successful at making a dozen 2m\/FM contacts into both San Diego, Orange, and Los Angeles counties.  This was using a 5W HT (Yaesu FT-60R) and a 4-element Yagi.  We gripped the brakes the entire way down.  W6\/SC-029 Stonewall Peak and W6\/SC-024 Middle Peak were also done on this trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250808_5363_yagi_sm-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250808_5363_yagi_sm-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250808_5363_yagi_sm-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250808_5363_yagi_sm-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250808_5363_yagi_sm-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250808_5363_yagi_sm-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">View to the coast using a 4-element Yagi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"675\" height=\"548\" src=\"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cuyamaca.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cuyamaca.jpg 675w, https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cuyamaca-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">GAIAGps route<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Carol KE6SRN and Tom KE6SRO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steep mountain bike ride on a paved road Friday evening, August 8, 2025. We left from our campsite at Pasa Picacho Campground (#8). Although this is a paved road to the summit, only emergency and service vehicles are allowed. Instead we took our mountain bikes, leaving at 4:30 pm to avoid the mid-day sun, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2281,"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-578","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\/578","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}