Twelve Hour Timelapse

This week has been a busy week for me mainly due to my new part time job at the Sands Center, Carlisle where I help build stages for concerts and theater productions. Its tough work and sometimes late hours but good pay to fill the car up with petrol so I can go Kayaking!

Unfortunately, since my last post, I have managed to get out kayaking only once and it wasn't the most successful trip to date either. The trip has been named as "The Reconnaissance Session". Our intended plan was for paddling on the River Kent (Kent Gorge to Force Falls section). However unforeseen problems lead to our team arriving at the river later then planned and with the now winter sun starting to set around 1630, getting on the river that you have never run before around 1500 wasn't ideal. However we carried on paddling the top three rapids. Portaged the weir "you really don't want to run". Then ended up portaging the rest of the rapids on the river due to the light levels, the fact that none of us had run these rapid before and weren't overly confident running them anyway. Not a total fail of a trip as we now have inspected the rapids and different lines we might want to run in the near future hopefully.

I had another go at creating a time lapse this week. Inside this time. The time lapse was over a period of roughly twelve hours and was during my work time. I left my camera to capture the building of the stage for the band Rizzle Kicks. The clip has come out well and I'm just waiting for approval from The Sands Center to add some music to it then they plan to pass it onto the company SJB that manages Rizzle Kicks's tour, could be beneficial. Video below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvLU285v6Mw

Tuesday night was spent in Kendal watching a presentation by Dom Bush about his inspirations in the adventure film making industry and showed some his own work. A good chilled out event.

Today again I spent my time in Kendal at the Kendal Mountain Film Festival. A great event where i was representing my university in the its yurt that had been setup to promote the uni. I also manged to escape that and watch a few ski films. Interviewed some adventure and media freelancers for my D..d...d.... (I dare not type it). Ate a load of free samples and gained a many freebies from the stalls there. The best freebies being the coat water-reproofing spray and wash which will save me £30. Brilliant!

Uni and Skiing

Not a lot has been happening for me recently mainly been completeing university assignments. However the pressure to do them has eased off slightly and last week I went on a short trip to Gleenshee Ski area with a few friends. The snow wasnt the best but enough to have a good time. I have also recently updated my website http://www.hartridethestorm.co.uk/ on there you can also find links to my Twitter and Facebook.

Below are two snapshots from video captured on my GoPro suckerd to my friends snowboard.

Return to Uni

A bit behind but I returned to uni on the 8th of January to ice-climbing, mountaineering, ice axe breaking and all that other dull stuff you have to do normally.

I tested out my GoPro in the chilly weather we had for three days up in the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. The highlight of the three days was constantly being told by our leader Stuart from climb365, "don't fall now else you will die". This encouragement made it an incredibly exhilarating few days. Below is a photo captured on my GoPro after having climbed up one of the snow filled gullys which was about 350m high at plus 60degrees.