Lost my Gopro then found it again (under half a meter of snow at Niseko)

jibopoply

jibopoply

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Snapped my Gopro off my head after hitting a branch hanging just above a pillow after 6 amazing runs in Niseko, biggest bummer!! searched for 45mins to find it and finally hit it (10m down the hill)... Usually hard to find a ski let alone a Gopro. Continued to ski deep filth and my gopro still intact. My day went from awesome to really gay then awesome again.
 
I have footage of today just not the accident cause it was only a short descent that usually isn't worth filming (off the side of the family run down to the gully) I post the Raw footage on here once i load it onto my computer if you really want to see some pow and get extremely jealous haha
 
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Here is a run I did today sorry if it doesn't work cause it's a facebook vid...
 
Thats not that hard to find it on the family run.... And where are the pillows on the family run? like tower two? that couldn't have been THAT hard to find it. If you had been on the back side of super ridge or something i would have been impressed that you found it.
 
Not on the family run, down the pitch towards the gully on the left about half way down, so it is basically like loosing it down supercourse or on that ridge line... as i said half a meter under snow and 10m from where i clipped the tree
 
I lost mine on Furiko the other night, didn't realise until the next lap, so no real hope of finding it. gutted :(
 
super awesome to hear that

I think I'll just lower your karma because of my jealousy right now

snow line in Austria just went up to a whopping 2000m... great -.-
 
I was thinking about that..but can you just borrow a recco searcher? You can find those recco things for cheap..
 
I'm missing a GoPro and a Rossi Phantom RC 112 below Breakneck... It's buried under about 12 feet of sluff at this point. Fun hiking trip come this spring.
 
Last night I lost the key to my snow blower in the snow, and as I was about to give up I found it. It was sick. Congrats on finding that go pro though
 
That is the worst thing ever. If you get in a avalanche and your gopro pops of the patrolers could find your gopro insted of you which would be bad
 
friend was cliff jumping in the summer and was using the headstrap i think. So funny to just watch the camera floating down into the muck. Still no clue how they found it. Easily 14 ft deep water into endless mud/slime.
 
Read this to understand how Recco works.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RECCO

Basically, there's a diode that connects two aerials that make a radar harmonic in the reflector. The search unit sends out a radar beam that bounces off the reflector, and the returned waves are translated into audio signals.

However, almost all electronics have some sort of diode. The range is much less, because it isn't optimized for the same frequency, but it does work if you've got a decent idea where the Gopro/phone/ipod is located.
 
ok awesome i'll remember that for next time, although the gopro was a lot further from where i thought it could've landed so it prob would've been no use...
 
Haha I was confused at the Family run part, makes more sense now. A friend of mine dropped a cliff the other day and got buried, had to dig himself out. Luckily he's larger than a Gopro.

I'll be in the Hirafu park from about 11am tomorrow with a green/yellow Candide jacket unless it's dumping. Got Line Blends, come along!
 
I was thinking it would be pretty sick to have a NS meeting point to go shred, I have work at the moment so won't be able to shred for another few days but if you see me give me a yell (last years FD blue/purple matching, zebra smith holt and benchetlers)
 
Wow man youre so luckky that you found it, I lost my gopro on the first day when ijust hit some bumps, My dad had bought it which he had regret the moment he got it, So i felt so fucked, but i saw it when riding up the lift, it was in the middle of the piste and it was really busy, Some guy had picked it up and after a big argument he gave it back, but the gopro didnt work the whole trip so we send it back, and now were hoping to get a new 1
 
in lovely Massachusetts it is 14 degrees, lovely blue bird skies, and just got dumped with 2 feet on thursday :D
 
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