Journey · June 23, 2017

Hill tribes of northern Thailand

The balloon payload’s phone, carried by car through the hills north of Chiang Mai. Driving down a long hill looked to the software exactly like a balloon starting to fall, so it went through its paper airplane release sequence: a photo before, a video during, and a photo after, five times over.

Tracked

10:08 AM–10:08 AM

0 min, local time

Highest

2,828 ft

862 m

Started at

Mae Rim, north of Chiang Mai

19.094° N, 98.936° E

Ended at

Chiang Mai

18.786° N, 99.007° E · 22 mi (35 km) away

The best of it

Highlights

1,736 ft 10:08 AM

Video 1,736 ft 10:08 AM