The weekend before I had gone skating at beaver lake with my old roommate. I hadn’t done any recording with my gopro in a long time and I had been feeling the urge to be more creative. I charged up my gopro batteries the night before. I had planned to record what it’s like to hike from downtown Montreal to the chalet (cottage) on top of Mount-Royal, then make my way over to beaver lake. The timing was perfect, the city had just finished getting a large snowstorm. It was a little cold so there weren’t many people hiking. It was going to be beautiful to record, a real winter wonderland. Here was the 45 minutes route:
I ran into a problem I really wasn’t expecting. The camera kept shutting itself off. It wasn’t the batteries, I had three that were fully charged. It seemed like the camera simply stopped working. I fiddled with the battery thinking it was the cause. The camera turned on and allowed me to hit the record button again. Then it would stop once more at random intervals. I tried to stop and restart the camera each time this would occur. I thought I had done a pretty good job at ensuring I lost no footage.
