Umbra SAR layers are exactly where this guy went missing (in 2005, mind you). Conceivably the camera would have lasted from 2005 and be detectable with enough resolution of a synthetic aperture radar. #SAR#SearchAndRescue#MichaelFicery#Yosemite
Looks like it is only by accident that Umbra is acquiring data in that location, not related to this case, but did let them know they had picked a good spot anyway. If there are any Yosemite SAR folks who have any interest in a project, ping me. #Yosemite#SAR#SearchAndRescue#NPS
@ai6yr Wow I poked around that area both in the Scouts and many years ago. Near the Dam its okay and that tunnel on the other side is cool. The terrain in parts is pretty unforgiving however.
@cvvhrn Looks pretty darn steep there, if you went up and couldn't come down and tumbled down a cliff, you'd be hating life (or... probably a skull and scattered bones for that fellow by now).
@cvvhrn Or, also could have been eaten by a bear... in which case I guess you just hope to find the dude's camera and poke around hoping the skull survived, LOL. (do bears really collect bones in their den, or is that a myth? 🤔)
@ai6yr Yeah for sure. The biggest downfall to experience IMHO in the outdoors is the same thing we deal with on transport. I really have to check the "Ive got this" mentality. It can get you into trouble.
I am assuming mind you but given he was experienced.
I can't recall if we have talked about this before. Are you familiar with Tom Mahood? His desert roaming and story on finding that A-12 crash site is one of the reasons I roam the desert. He also pieced together the mystery of the German family who went missing in Death Valley
@cvvhrn I did not see the A-12 story, but I saw the HUGE work that went into finding that German family. Excellent work -- though I wonder if satellite + drone work could shortcut that kind of thing nowadays (ie I know I can spot vehicles in the middle of nowhere now on satellite, no problem, as long as it's desert and not forest....)
@cvvhrn Cool... definitely can spot planes now on satellite, too, the reflective SAR satellites also could be a game changer on crashes in forests.... There's a few likely meteor crash sites out in the Saudi Arabian desert I have found (undocumented, but completely inaccessible to humans, LOL) based on the splash of metal bits across sand.... (No way to confirm it though, literally in "no man's land")
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