Our pilot project is complete, and boy have we learned a ton from this one! While many are still focusing on earning HNT for Helium Hotspot deployments, the obvious move for those of us interested in longevity is actually USING the Network.
I got into Helium accidentally. I was looking for a way to find and communicate with other paragliders out back of beyond. I had participated in a Search and Rescue for a well known paraglider out in remote Nevada at the end of summer 2020.
It's a warm sunny day just west of and about 1,600 feet above Lake Elsinore, at a paragliding launch site unimaginatively called "The E". A few of us are getting ready to launch off the steep face of the hill to ride thermals and the wind. Our "plan A" today is to see if we can fly a giant triangle in the sky, at least 50 km. Plan A doesn't happen.