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White Mountain Peak Videos — Bail Due To Hail
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This video story was August 14, 2012 and was done on an aborted attempt to summit White Mountain Peak from the Owens River way down on the valley floor. Heavy wet hail moved in and the attempt was aborted just shy of 13,000' elevation.
See the Trek to the Summit of White Mountain Peak ride details.
Video details
These videos were all taken while cycling with the Olympus E-M5 strapped against my midsection with the Panasonic 8mm f/3.5 fisheye, so there is a lot of bouncing around. But this is precisely one reason to favor the E-M5; its powerful image stabilization actually makes the video watchable, though the bouncing can be extreme in some parts of the video.
Click each image to view the video. All videos are aup to 1080p.
White Mountains — “High Speed Descent to “Big Dip”
Sunny day, camera strapped on body on fast mountain bike descent on Moots Mooto X YBB 29er.
This was one of my first cycling video attempts, and the camera is unfortunately pointed too low for the latter half of the video, even with the 8mm Panasonic fisheye lens.
Aug 14, 2012
White Mountains — “High Speed Descent before Patriarch Grove”
Some discussion (stable) then brief fast downhill.
Aug 14, 2012
White Mountains — “White Mountain Peak on a Gorgeous Day, High Open Area”
High speed descent with beautiful mountains, commentary on bikes, weather, et.
This area is just past Patriarch Grove above treeline at ~11,700' elevation and is a beautiful open area.
Aug 14, 2012
White Mountains — “A Brief Tour of White Mountain Research Station (Barcroft)”
A brief ride through the White Mountain Research Station past the buildings and the captive research sheep.
Aug 14, 2012
White Mountains — “Clouded up, Doesn’t Look Pleasant”
Self interview, nice and steady handheld near White Mountain Peak. Commentary on weather conditions, etc.
Aug 14, 2012
White Mountains — “Starting to Hail”
Self interview, nice and steady handheld near White Mountain Peak. Commentary on weather conditions, etc.
Aug 14, 2012
White Mountains — “Getting Wet Fast Looks Like Abort”
Self interview, nice and steady handheld near White Mountain Peak. Commentary on weather conditions, etc.
Aug 14, 2012
White Mountains — “Decided to Bail”
Commentary mainly, steady camera, a bit of self interview.
Aug 14, 2012
White Mountains — “Top of Silver Canyon + Descent”
First part of video is most instructive, lens unfortunately then points too far down after some time on the grueling descent.
Aug 14, 2012
