This day, I drove from Eschbach near Freiburg to Friedrichshafen, where I had booked an AirBnb apartment for 4 nights. I left at 08:30 local time, the temperature was already 25°C.
Along the road, I had planned three summits.
DM/BW-233, Buchberg - 880m, 10 points
Parking spot is here : 47.835652, 8.530815 , at the Friedhof Blumberg.
Right across the road starts a shortcut through the grass (yellow line), or you can just walk the Pommernweg (red line), it doesn't make a big difference.
I wanted to follow the track by Markus, HB9BRJ from SOTL.as, but I must have been sleeping ... I missed the right turn to the Eichlerweg. So in the end I walked more than needed, but following the Buchbergweg made it less steep. I returned via the Eichlerweg.
In case you want to avoid my mistake, this is where you should go up the steeper Eichlerweg, note the three "steps".
Anyway, I made it to the summit, at the Buchberghütte, and got this nice view as a reward.
I set up my station at the picnic bench, and had a nice activation.
30 QSO's and 5 S2S made me a happy activator.
DM/BW-235, Hoher Randen - 930m, 10 points
Again, it was around noon when I arrived at my second summit, so time for lunch ... lucky that there was a nice bench in the hut at the parking spot, position 47.791913, 8.557019
Can you tell it was again getting hot that day ?
After lunch, it was a 10 minute walk to a nice spot in the activation zone. I didn't walk to the actual summit, but followed the track and advice by Markus, HB9DIZ.
Near another hut are a number of beehives, but I wasn't bothered by any bees, it must have been too hot for them as well ... hi.
The bench where I set up was in the shade when I started the activation, but after a while it became completely sunlit, so I was lucky that I brought an umbrella ... and my extra fans !
I had 19 QSO's in the log, no S2S but 1 P2P for POTA.
DM/BW-359, Stöckenloch - 698m, 6 points
Finding the road to this summit may be a bit tricky. First you have to drive to this position 47.787370, 9.013911, along the Dettelbachstrasse. There you will see a sign to the Bisonstube. Follow the forest road all the way until you see the Bisonstube, where you can park, position 47.790349, 9.029421
You can see a few bisons in the picture above.
There was a slight drizzle when I arrived, so I wanted to wait a little until it passed.
While I was making some notes in my travel logbook, someone came knocking on my window.
It was Ingo, DH5ST ! He had also just arrived to activate this summit, on his way to Friedrichshafen.
I knew Ingo from the lecture he gave at the SOTA meeting in 2022.
While we decided to activate or not, I forgot to take a "selfie" with Ingo, but you can find a picture of him somewhere in
this report).
The drizzle faded away and we started walking to the sumit. We split up, and agreed to use different HF bands to avoid mutual interference. I found a nice spot in the activation zone. I had taken an umbrella but the rain had stopped completely, so no need to use it.
Because I wanted to stick to my schedule, I made it a short activation with only 5 QSO's, but 2 of those were S2S. When walking back, I looked if I could spot Ingo, but I couldn't see him. He was probably somewhere near the arrow in the picture, hi.
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The final part of the road goes along the Bodensee, using the B31 road.
It gives some nice views of the Bodensee, but goes through many holiday resorts (
Erholungsort), where speed is limited to 30 km/h. So a slow and long drive resulted ... arriving in Friedrichshafen at 18:00 local time. It had been a long day ...
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