Grey Cup on top of a 6,000ft Mountain Peak

[kokonutz]

Well... What can I say. I have great vision and terrible execution. I had a great idea to take the Grey Cup with BC Lions #47 James Yurichuk out for the most epic celebration with a professional sports trophy ever!

Then... I lost 75% of the footage on SD cards while out on the town in Vancouver that night while celebrating with the Cup

This is a video we put together with the remaining camera. Hope you like and can spread the link to get the word out that the 2 SD cards are still missing in Vancouver.

[mgeni]

will sure spread the word, Nice clip!

[kokonutz]

Thanks Mgeni,

We got the Cup for another day yesterday and reshot some of the images we lost at dawn. This is a quick teaser of the footage. It was a 2 Heli shoot this time and this shot is leaving a 6,000 foot peak with the Grey Cup.



Had about a 15kt wind directly on my tail but because the other machine couldn't hold steady for the second angle from above, I had to make my approach downwind, which made it a bit tricky and why I'm not totally stable as I'm entering my passenger. Also, the snow was hard as a rock which made keeping the toes of my skid, with the tail twitching around an interesting challenge. You can hear the snow grinding under my skids as I'm trying to hold steady. But the other pilot said I'm just being hard on myself and it looked good... Meh. I've done better.

Hope you guys like it and are interested to see the final video. Hopefully will be edited and up by Tuesday!

[kokonutz]

Not sure if everyone is getting sick of this already or not, but thought I'd share a news clip showing some of the footage we got from our second flight with the cup.

[ahramin]

Never get tired of that footage - fantastic stuff - but I'm sure getting sick of everyone on the planet using that soundtrack for all their videos.

[Nark]

Maybe this will change your mind Ahramin

[ahramin]

I'm sorry. What were we talking about?

Oh. Point taken Nark.

[North Shore]

Hmm, cups on Vancouver mountaintops; where have I seen that before?

[kokonutz]

Hmm, cups on Vancouver mountaintops; where have I seen that before?

To be honest, I never knew that Ladd did that before we filmed. I was actually inspired by a sunset picture of Scott Niedermayer on top of a peak with the cup in 1995. I can't find the actual picture, but it is burned into my memory. This is from the same photo set.



Definitely wasn't out to copy a Blackhawk, but sure glad to have upstaged one...