On March 19th I had the rare (for me) opportunity to go to Mt. Laguna during a significant snow storm. It had already been snowing during the previous two days, so there was 6-8 inches of snow on the ground when I arrived, and more coming down.











The trees were decorated with a heavy blanket of snow that turned stately pines into fanciful Christmas trees:






Oaks and other deciduous trees were transformed as well:






Winds were light, and I was able to make numerous flights with my drone. I flew it over, around, under, and between the snow-draped trees, often while snow was still falling, and captured some truly epic video footage and stills:








I went home satisfied with the both the experience, and the amount of great video I had shot.

Then...DISASTER!!

I couldn't find the microSD card that had all of my best footage from the drone! Somehow I had lost it after putting in a new card. All I had were the last two, brief flights that were on the new card.

Two days later after most of the snow had melted I went back to the place where I had removed the full card from the drone. This was on a little-used driveway to a private observatory. I searched through the remaining snow and ice that still covered portions of the asphalt, but no luck.     


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I feel your loss!   Amazing pics!  Thanks for sharing with us!

Oh boy.
That really sucks.
Hope you will recover it someday.

Still some nice shots though!

Cool shots, but oh, the pain!

That really sucks. You did capture some nice shots.