My belief is that many of the repeaters in Colorado are
located on the first real mountain in the foothills. This
allows good comm to the PLAINS, and questionable comm to
other areas. If you are behind this North/South row of
repeaters, with a mountain directly to your East, your best
chance is North or South to a distant repeater, in that row.
Please check me on my assumptions, here.
Mostly right but not completely. Sometimes a ham or club in a mountain valley will put up their own repeater. Estes Park has its own repeater (for instance).
There probably would be a repeater serving North Park (Walden area) and so on.
I found the Estes Park machine useful one year on a monster dayhike:
http://estes.on-line.com/rmnp/reports/HighDivide.htmlEdit- I just found that Livermore, an area I've been and plan to do hiking has a listing. I'll have to see if my radio will be of any use next time I go.
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