[4K] Skiing Alpe d'Huez, La Sarenne - The Longest Black Run from Herpie, France, GoPro HERO11

[@ellenleonard2343]

I hope you have a Happy New Year! Mid-Atlantic skiing has had a mushy start but, I've already got 4 days in! Can't wait for more content!

[@ChasingSnow]

Thanks Ellen, have a great new year and thanks for your contribution in 2023. We've had plenty of snow here, not so many sunny days but looking forward to some good days for more content when I'm back on the slopes in 2024...

[@Yokazz]

Nice view and piste till the second half, where it gets flat. Impossible for Snowboarders… like that long flats are insane…it always should go down and never flat on the Mountains, imo. Nice video!

[@ChasingSnow]

Yes, it does get a bit flat and continues if I kept going after the lift...

[@PepeGR5]

You can do that part with enough speed and staying really stable

[@Puzzoozoo]

It could just be the way it looks on You Tube but apart from at 5:52 for a black it looked somewhat mellow, it was hardly another Ischgl 14A. Once I'm confident on ski's a return visit to Alpe d'Huez will be required for me to do that run.

[@ChasingSnow]

I don't think any part was that challenging, it's an easy black from where I started but not sure what the top part is like, from pic blanc, I'll try that next time...

[@martinfey578]

As you are descending in that x wind @ 1:46 I can feel the sting of the blown snow on my icy cheek. I remember in Tignes too long ago, we stopped on our chairlift and 1 side of our faces were frozen with the wind chill and the moisture was freezing in our nostrils making it harder to breath through our noses. Anyway Happy New Year. I've invested in a GoPro 11 Black and will use the settings you use on yours. Do you rely on the GoPro cloud to save your raw footage or do you just change memory cards regularly? I take it that you edit your videos with virb edit on a laptop?

[@ChasingSnow]

When it's really cold with a strong wind, I'll pull my neck warmer up over my face so it's all fully covered. The problem I tend to have is with cold fingers, even my electric gloves don't warm at max setting but I found that hand warmers (chemical) do a good job, if I remember to bring some... I used to use the GoPro cloud but found I needed a really fast internet link to upload the files and finding one is quite difficult. With the Hero 10 and 11, you can only connect to Wifi, if it just has a password. It won't connect to anything else.... Now I just make two backups and I have 2TB of SD cards so don't need to change them as often (3 x 512GB and 2 x 256GB) I use VirbEdit just for the telemetry guages but Premiere Pro for the editing... yes, all on a laptop...

[@Puzzoozoo]

@@ChasingSnow I was planning to get a Go Pro 12 to record my runs, will that get around the cloud issue, or will I have to copy you and use high capacity SD's? As for warm hands, mittens are said to be a lot warmer then gloves.

[@ChasingSnow]

@Puzzoozoo I have electric mits which I take when really cold and put hand warmers in them... works well... I purchased the 12, but it's no use to me as no built-in GPS. I think the 11 is better, same picture quality, built-in GPS and cheaper....I don't think the 12 would be better with WiFi, I kept my 9 for that as I can configure WiFi manually, whereas 10, 11 and I assume 12 are automated through the Quik app...

[@Puzzoozoo]

@@ChasingSnow Right, thanks for the heads up on the Go Pro, something for me to think about.

How it's only hardly 7 km's, instead of 16?

[@ChasingSnow]

I did not start from the top, it was closed but I doubt it's 16km long. When I go back I'll do a proper top to bottom and measure the distance...

Fine, thank you! We will go January 20-27 also :D@@ChasingSnow

[@ChasingSnow]

Enjoy

[@rmgw226]

why does the run kinda look like the outline of england's east coast

[@ChasingSnow]

Ha, interesting observation, I didn't notice it before you mentioned it :-)

[@NBW_75]

nice piste. only the last third sucks. i hate those flat pistes as i am a snowboarder.

[@ChasingSnow]

Next time I'll do it from the top of Pic Blanc, which was closed that day so didn't do the full length...

[@kiwibloke2000]

It's a blue run.

[@ChasingSnow]

Most of it....