Thanks, I checked the settings and obstacle avoidance was turned on. There was absolutely no damage to the quad. It was a little green though. I calibrated the gimble and imu with no issues.
I looked at the flight log and up to the time it crashed the height readings were 190 feet plus, which makes it hard to hit a 8 to 10 foot tree. Before or around the time it crashed the signal was lost. It is as if the signal was lost and it just fell out of the sky (it could have been the other way though). When my mavic air loses a signal it returns to home. My homebase was set for where I took off.
So another way to ask my earlier question, if I take off at an altitude of 200 feet and I am going up hill at a slope of 300 feet. Will the quad maintain an altitude of 200 feet or if I were to do nothing would it crash into the hillside. Another way of putting it, is if I were to cross a canyon at an altitude of 100 feet, would it drop into the canyon of say 500 feet and then climb back up on the other side of the canyon?