Thank you! Oh wow, I had no idea you all did balloon mapping down in this area before actually. This spot is roughly a mile away from where that balloon map is.

Not too many maps, but as part of the summit at Jim Wiley's place in I think 2010? It was when we were just figuring out balloon mapping, actually. You can see a couple more in the general region at https://publiclab.org/map/#8/37.661919185479036/-81.97255779057743

This is maybe a weird idea, but have you ever seen someone send a drone up attached to a balloon? I wonder if you could steer it a bit, but even if not, if maybe you could cut it loose and the drone could return home from a super high altitude.

Anyways i appreciate your work here!

That's very cool. If the summit you're referring to at Wiley's was a mountain justice camp then I was totally there.

I actually just shot a video today of the Edwight permit/Shumate slurry dam which is indeed the area that y'all mapped. Here it is - https://publiclab.org/notes/junior_walk1337/01-06-2022/edwight-shumate-1-6-22

I'm honestly pretty conservative about what all I do with the drone, as I've only got one, they're fairly expensive, and I destroyed one before when I was still learning how they work. That said, the idea probably would work, but there are regulations around how high you're really allowed to go with them.

Thank you! I appreciate that you've done some work around the issue as well!