{"id":810,"date":"2025-08-14T05:57:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T05:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inventwave.com\/w6test\/?p=810"},"modified":"2025-08-14T06:26:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T06:26:31","slug":"w6-nd-026-gilbert-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/2025\/08\/14\/w6-nd-026-gilbert-peak\/","title":{"rendered":"W6\/ND-026 Gilbert Peak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Summer Bonus: 3 Pts June 15 &#8211; September 15<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Other summits in the area: W6\/SN-033 Mammoth Mountain, W6\/ND-037 Lookout Mountain, W6\/ND-392 Dry Creek Knoll, W6\/ND-029 Banner Ridge, W6\/ND-393 8185 (Benton Crag), W6\/ND-012 Bald Mountain, W6\/ND-041 8126, W6\/ND-047 Casa Diablo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Saturday, July 26, 2025.&nbsp; After driving 3.6 mi on a dirt road we parked at 37.69412, -118.90906.&nbsp; From here it was a 0.5 mi cross-country hike to peak.&nbsp; The last bit was tricky \u2013 steep and very loose sand.&nbsp; The summit was a ridge of rocks adjacent to a large flat pad.  Hidden here is a plaque honoring Charles &#8220;Gil&#8221; Gilbert, who the summit is named for. He was a professor of Geology at UC Berkeley and in the 1930&#8217;s mapped the area and proposed its source of formation.  The Bishop repeaters can be used to stir up 2m\/FM contacts on 146.52 MHz.  (See Repeater frequency listing, below.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" src=\"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250726_5210_summit_sm-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250726_5210_summit_sm-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250726_5210_summit_sm-1024x653.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250726_5210_summit_sm-768x490.jpg 768w, https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250726_5210_summit_sm-1536x980.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250726_5210_summit_sm-2048x1307.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Large flat pad in the Activation Zone (AZ)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250726_5208_Tom_sm-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-813\" srcset=\"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250726_5208_Tom_sm-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250726_5208_Tom_sm-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250726_5208_Tom_sm-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250726_5208_Tom_sm-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250726_5208_Tom_sm-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gilbert plaque on cliff, seen behind Tom, on the far side of the rocks away from the open area pad.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250726_5214_view_sm-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-812\" srcset=\"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250726_5214_view_sm-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250726_5214_view_sm-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250726_5214_view_sm-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250726_5214_view_sm-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250726_5214_view_sm-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">View to Ritter Mountain, 13149 ft in height<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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\/20250726_5202_monoLake_sm-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250726_5202_monoLake_sm-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250726_5202_monoLake_sm-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250726_5202_monoLake_sm-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250726_5202_monoLake_sm-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250726_5202_monoLake_sm-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">View to Mono Lake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"858\" height=\"625\" src=\"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/gaiagps_gilbert.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/gaiagps_gilbert.jpg 858w, https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/gaiagps_gilbert-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/gaiagps_gilbert-768x559.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 858px) 100vw, 858px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">GAIAGps route<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bishop area repeaters<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>These are linked and have PL 103.5<br>Silver Peak, 146.940<br>Mazourka Peak, 146.760-<br>Alabama Hills, 147.210+<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Carol KE6SRN and Tom KE6SRO<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, July 26, 2025.&nbsp; After driving 3.6 mi on a dirt road we parked at 37.69412, -118.90906.&nbsp; From here it was a 0.5 mi cross-country hike to peak.&nbsp; The last bit was tricky \u2013 steep and very loose sand.&nbsp; The summit was a ridge of rocks adjacent to a large flat pad. Hidden here is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"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-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tripreports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","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=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}