Now on the return from my trip to Indianapolis/Cincinnati, I drove back through Chillicothe to do another new-to-me OH SOTA hike. I had just worked Mike AD8IS on Schiff Benchmark after we completed our first activation of Staley Knob just a week prior. I couldn’t resist stopping by on the way back to make it a SOTA complete.
The hike is in Buzzard’s Roost Nature Preserve, a Ross County park. I followed the Lookout Trail until it passed a creek.
I left the Lookout trail to follow an ATV path, as documented by OH SOTA expert Chris N8PEM. I followed this right up to the edge of the nature preserve to stay off of private property where the actual summit is.
I had a successful activation, and notched three more S2S contacts: N1SMB on W0C/SR-051 (15m), KT0A on W0D/BB-079 (20m), and N4MAP on W4G/HC-005 (20m). Another complete in the log, this one brought my total to 55!
- Trailhead: 39.32743, -83.06588 : Buzzard’s Roost Nature Preserve parking
- Maps: [AA3TZ SOTA]
- Route: 1.0 mi RT hike, Lookout Trail to ATV track
- POTA: None, this is a county park
Tom Zajdel 