New Camera...

For Christmas, my wonderful Mother got me a GoPro HD Hero 2 camera. Pretty stoked on it, can't wait to get some sick footage at the hill. I am sure that everyone has heard of GoPro HD mountable cameras or similar ones. In case you haven't heard of it, it's basically a high definition helmet cam. Well it can be mounted everywhere, and be used to film anything. It has an impressive 170 degree ultra wide field of view with 1080p high resolution at 30 frames per second. If this is all mumbo jumbo to you, just YouTube some footage and see for yourself. In fact check out this death defying video.

That's some crazy shit, eh? Personally I would never get that close to the edge, maybe has something to do with my fear of heights. Okay I don't really have a fear of heights, more of a fear of falling to my death. That's normal... Right? Hopefully I will never take footage like that, but right now the condition of the hill aren't worth the trouble of filming at all. Not like I want to film riding over groomed runs. Boring! I don't know what the fucking problem is, it was 10 degrees today! It was a brown Christmas in Southern Alberta this year and according to my phone's weather app, there is no snow expected in the next four or five days. Fucking Sad.

Various Mounts

Most likely going to be filming most of my video with my new GoPro. It can capture incredible first person view footage, but It can be used to record follow up shots or just be used like a regular videocamera. Since it has a ultra wide fish-eye field of view, you have to be really close or everything looks far away. One of the things I didn't like about a handheld videocamera was it was sketchy to film close up, follow ups and hard to fit things into the frame. Plus with all the extra mount accessories it's possible to get a infinite amount of angles. I am sure I will use my handheld for multiple shots on the same park hit, but with the GoPro I could mount it to the park hit. 

 Before even thinking about filming, I got to get up to the hill. So far it has been a struggle to go riding, I have only gone up twice this year. Last time was over a week and a half ago, not like I am missing anything. Still nice to be able to go more often. Unfortunately my job isn't working around my schedule! The deal was if I was a slave during the summer I would only work night shifts in the winter. After working close to 200 hours a month in the hot sweaty summer, now they not holding up to their end of the bargain. Not over worrying about though, going to be asking for a lot of time off when the snow hits and business is slow.