Amateur Radio operators from around Colorado climb many of Colorado's 14,000-foot mountains to set up amateur radio stations in an effort to communicate with other radio amateurs across the state and around the world every second Sunday in August. This video is about N0B's adventure up Mt Humboldt (14,065ft) with Guy/N7UN and Steve/wg0at and their faithful sherpa goats Rooster and Peanut.
"Gaining Altitude" is an account of N0B's journey into thin air with Rooster and Peanut. On August 10 2008 NØB (manned with Guy/N7UN and Steve/NØTU) along with their faithful Sherpa/goats (Rooster and Peanut) set out to climb Uncompahgre Peak, CO (14,309') from the Nellie Creek Trailhead (11,400'). Mean while in CA, Brian/N6IZ was climbing Mt Whitney (14,498' highest peak in lower 48) had 8 miles and 6200' between him and the summit almost double the effort of N0B! The Ham 14er Event (http://w...
Amateur Radio operators from around Colorado climb many of Colorado's 14,000-foot mountains to set up amateur radio stations in an effort to communicate with other radio amateurs across the state and around the world every second Sunday in August. This video is about N0B's adventure up Mt Humboldt (14,065ft) with Guy/N7UN and Steve/wg0at and their faithful sherpa goats Rooster and Peanut.
While climbing the 14,064' Humboldt Peak a Colorado 14er in the Sangre De Cristo Range for the Ham-14er August 2009 event I decided to equip my pack goat Peanut with a goat-cam (Tachyon XC Helmet cam). Once we reached the saddle 12.9k' to began our accent on the 14k summit I mounted the camera on Peanut's saddle and activated it. I must admit I wound up with what I think is some fascinating and most unusual footage! It's almost as if my goat Peanut knew what he was doing as a videographer! (an...