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JT76, 2/12/2015
Report and photos by Adam Marsland. Date: February 12, 2015 Participant: Adam Marsland General Search Area: western slopes of low mountains dividing Upper and Lower Covington Flat. Rationale for...
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JT77, 2/25/2015
Date: February 25, 2015 Participant: Tom Mahood General Search Area: An unexplored area of Serin Drive cell tower coverage northeast of Quail Mountain and west of Johnnie Lang Canyon. Essentially up...
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JT78, 4/5/2015
Writeup and pictures by Adam Marsland Date: April 5, 2015 Participants: Adam Marsland, Teresa Cowles General Search Area: Low lying areas north of Upper Covington Flat, and on either side of Lower...
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Distant Droney Cousins
I will sometimes head out to El Mirage Dry Lake for testing of my fixed wing stuff. I like it because it has a flat surface for miles and there’s nothing to run in to (except the ground). And the BLM,...
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Catalina – Two Harbors hiking, April 12-14, 2015
Once Jeri and I tasted a bit of staying at Two Harbors on Catalina, we quickly lost interest in that bustling burg at the other end of the island, Avalon. Two Harbors is barely a village, with minimal...
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Joshua Tree – The Blue Cut and N1586W, April 9, 2015
Well, one of them anyway. Anyone who does Googling around for aircraft wreck sites eventually comes across purported databases of crash sites. And anyone who has ever actually been out looking for...
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End of the Techpod, April 20, 2015
I was one of the initial Kickstarter backers of the Techpod. Based upon my knowledge level at the time, it struck me as a pretty neat and useful airframe. I was sort of gushy about it. However, over...
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Drone Imaging of Archaeological Sites in Western New Mexico
One of the rationalizations (excuses) I used for getting into drones was that they’d be excellent at imaging archaeological sites. Sounds pretty legit, doesn’t it? Makes spending the money feel not as...
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JT79, 5/28/2015
Writeup and pictures by Adam Marsland Date: May 28, 2015 Participant: Adam Marsland General Search Areas: Southeasterly of Eureka Peak; mountain ridge and low areas where Smith Water Canyon meets Lower...
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Historic 1952-53 Aerial Images of Bellflower, California
Here I offer up some aerial photographs taken by the US Department of Agriculture of Bellflower, California. Depending on the location, they were taken in either 1952 or 1953. Be warned that unless you...
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Drones and Bones
September, 2015 Unlike many people I usually don’t fly multirotors just for “fun”. Sure, to some extent flying them is fun, but it’s counterbalanced by the small and always present possibility they can...
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Panama City, December 2015
Well, damn….Having now read through this pile of crap I wrote I see it’s turned into a blah, blah, blahfest. God, I am long winded! So executive summary…..Jeri and I had a great time, Panama City is a...
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Paris, January 2016
So far, Jeri and I have been to Paris only a couple of times. When considering how many times we’ve been to Italy this seems a bit odd, but in truth we were really smitten with Italy and as everyone...
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JT80, 1/25/2016
Date: January 25, 2016 Participant: Tom Mahood General Search Area: The hill formation northwesterly of Samuelson’s Rocks, focusing on areas of Serin Tower cell coverage at the 10.6 mile distance....
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JT81, 2/04/2016
Writeup and pictures by Adam Marsland Date: February 4, 2016 Participant: Adam Marsland General Search Area: Traversing the highlands on the north side of Smith Water Canyon. Rationale for Search:...
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The.Best.Guzzler.Ever! Joshua Tree National Park
February, 2016 Note: In this writeup I’m not mentioning any specific locations or other possibly identifying information. There are just too many assholes in the world who’ve learned to use the...
View ArticleSearching for the Kutz Canyon Stairway
Introductory Note: Kutz Canyon is a location I’ve been exploring for a few years now but never publicly mentioned. Little has ever been written about it. As it could possibly be a archaeological site I...
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First Kutz Canyon Trip, August 23, 2012
Jeri and I made our first trip to Kutz Canyon in August of 2012. We planned it as an overnight trip to Farmington, with a stop at another ruin I wanted to see, Twin Angels. One would think August would...
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Kutz From the Bottom Up (Sorta), August 31, 2012
It didn’t take long to turn back to a desert. It was August, after all, and the hot weather dried things out fast. And the storms ceased. All I had to do was figure out how to get to the bottom. The...
View ArticleFirst Kutz Canyon Drone Imaging Attempt, April 22, 2013
Well, this was almost a complete disaster. Jeri and I did a road trip to the base of the spine to test out a new quadcopter I had designed with just this sort of thing in mind (or so I thought). I...
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