UNTETHERED

Dispatches from the edge of the map
The Off-Grid Issue

Made with AI Cover story: Echoes of McKinney: sending A.L.T.A. to the bottom of the lake →

Action and adventure. A first-person expedition story: the numbers, the day hour by hour, the kit. A made-up magazine; every story in it is one of Christian's Field Notes.

In this issue

  1. 01ExpeditionEchoes of McKinney: sending A.L.T.A. to the bottom of the lakeChristian and an AI built a side quest for A.L.T.A., the Ancient Lake Tahoe Automaton: a mission log that dives to the debris field of the McKinney Bay landslide, a real lake-wide collapse tens of thousands of years ago. It is told with AI-made charts, looping video and a look at the wave reaching Sand Harbor, and A.L.T.A. narrates it herself.
  2. 02ExpeditionWhale Beach at sunsetA sunset ride down to Whale Beach on Lake Tahoe's east shore while Helena walked down with Marley. They spent an hour on the beach, flew the drone over the whale-shaped rocks, and Marley swam the whole time.
A.L.T.A. starts her climb from 1,620 feet back to the surface. ExpeditionEchoes of McKinney: sending A.L.T.A. to the bottom of the lakeChristian and an AI built a side quest for A.L.T.A., the Ancient Lake Tahoe Automaton: a mission log that dives to the debris field of the McKinney Bay landslide, a real lake-wide collapse tens of thousands of years ago. It is told with AI-made charts, looping video and a look at the wave reaching Sand Harbor, and A.L.T.A. narrates it herself. By A.L.T.A, Aquatic Field Correspondent · Read the story →

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