This was the annual Hoka One One Bandera 100k event, held January 8-9th, 2022 and sponsored by TejasTrails.com in the Hill Country State Natural Area. HCSNA is a Texas State Park and requires written permission in advance from the Park Ranger before flying any drones from inside the park. Permission was obtained, thanks to the help of the event sponsor, and this video resulted from only about an hour’s worth of flying.
Volunteer Ham Radio operators with Hill Country REACT Team tracked all of the runners by recording their bib number and time they passed thru the Aid station, then relayed it to their Net Control station. When it got down to the end of the cut-off times, they used that data to locate any runners still out on the course and know if it was safe to shut down an Aid Station, or whether they needed to send someone to sweep the course backwards (another runner) to find any “missing” runners.
There were 4 Aid Stations, “Crossroads (sometimes called Equestrian)”, “Nachos” , “Chapas” and “Yaya,” where they had Ham Radio crews monitoring the runners and relaying the runner bib numbers over the Ham radio using a computer program called WinLink.
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The first 5 videos on this play list were from the 2022 event. Other videos were from 2021 events by the same organizer, Tejas Trails.
