December 28, 2005
Head Cam Cliff jumps at Kirkwood
I've mentioned before that I often ski around with a camera strapped to my head. These days it's less amusing to watch than it used to be when I had my first, home made, head cam rig. I'm still working on getting decent footage from the camera; often things look too flat, or too slow, or generally just not as hard or as cool as I expected them to look. It's always a bit of a disappointment as everything looks easy and that's hardly the point of the exercise...
Anyway, here's an interesting bit of head cam video footage from someone (not me!) doing some cliff jumping in Kirkwood. Now, I don't know about you, but that doesn't look nearly as scary as I would have expected it to... I expect my comments above apply, so don't try this at home...
Via SkiBits.com
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Posted by Len at December 28, 2005 11:12 AM | Categories: Other Places
that is some sweet footage! reminds me of the view jumping off the Gibralter drop up on Loveland Pass. cant wait.. only 1/2 day in the office today, then 5 days of backcountry. Hope you had a good holiday!
Posted by: JP @ weknowsnow.com at December 28, 2005 05:59 PMJP, you work too hard ;)
Posted by: Len at December 28, 2005 07:47 PMyou know you are right. and my knee agrees with you 100%. last saturday i crashed pretty hard and ended up with a grade 2 tear of my MCL. couldn't walk all of xmas, good thing doc says i can shred come tomorrow cause depression is setting in. although i'll probably be at 50%, i can't not go out into the beautiful colorado rockies!!
Posted by: JP at December 28, 2005 08:17 PMI did my medial ligament last december and although I skied all last season with no problems (85 days on snow) I'm only just feeling like it's back to normal now...
We're in colorado in March, hope there's some snow left :)
Posted by: Len at December 28, 2005 08:24 PMwell look me up when you get out here! March is killer.. so is April and May. shit we had a 12" powder day on June 5th last year. btw, added a link on the sidebar over to MegèveSki.com.. :)
Posted by: JP at December 28, 2005 08:38 PMPretty awesome video footage. I bought a helmet camera from some guys here in London ( www.actioncameras.co.uk).
Good price and got some really good footage from it. Better than with my camcorder. Not sure I have the balls to do what that guy did though!
Posted by: Crash at January 26, 2006 01:34 PM