yeah, that's up near Flagstaff. The killer attack rat-dog was guarding my site.
there are LOTS of peaks on the rim and elsewhere in northern AZ, many are an easy hike from the nearest dirt road. To be a valid activation you have to hike to the peak, even if it means parking below the peak and hiking the road the rest of the way.
power is proportional to how much battery you are willing to carry. So nearly everyone uses QRP (5W or so). and QRP is better in CW.
My pole is a 20' fishing pole holding up the vertical, it hung at an angle so the base of the antenna is behind my back, the radials are on the ground behind me, one is visible on the left side of the photo, the other much harder to see. the Radiating element I think you can just barely see it rising behind my head. about 6' of coax not visible to the radio. but a dipole hung over a tree branch by tossing a string over the branch.
I've been a ham for 42 years and I feel like SOTA has breathed new life into it, especially slow/medium speed CW.
Poole