Videos

What the drone saw.

Twenty-eight stops with the Phantom 3, from Hallelujah Junction up to Lake Crescent. The kid had a sense for it — he’d fly the drone as fast and far as the signal would let him.

May 2016

Learning to fly

Peterson Mountain

First flight

Diamond Creek

Southern Oregon

Natural Bridges

Oregon Coast

Hiouchi Bridge

Smith River, CA

Stout Grove

Jedediah Smith SP

Sourdough Camp

Illinois River, OR

Limestone Rock

Oregon Caves NM

Smith River

Northern California

Kerby Peak

Illinois Valley, OR

June 2016

Down the rivers, into the burn

Rainie Falls

Rogue River, OR

Grayback Meadows

Siskiyou NF

Bolan Lake

Siskiyou Crest

Illinois River Swinging Bridge

Southern Oregon

Diamond Lake

Cascades, OR

Taylor Creek

Galice, OR

Briggs Creek

Rogue–Siskiyou NF

Frog Pond

Coast Range, OR

Gold & Silver Falls

Coos County, OR

John Dellenback Dunes

Oregon Dunes NRA

Heceta Head Lighthouse

Oregon Coast

Rogue River Trail

Wild & Scenic Rogue

July 2016

East across the Cascades

Columbia Gorge Vista House

Crown Point, OR

Scott Lake

Three Sisters Wilderness

Dee Wright Observatory

McKenzie Pass, OR

Painted Hills

John Day Fossil Beds

Smith Rock

High Desert, OR

Tamolitch — The Blue Pool

McKenzie River, OR

August 2016

Olympic Peninsula — the last stop

Lake Crescent

Olympic National Park, WA

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