[pct-l] Using hard drive above 10,000'

[Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes]

I had a regular digital camera fail over 10000 feet. Of course it  
recorded the pictures onto a card so perhaps it doesn't confirm  
anything except that 10000 feet may be some kind of threshold.
On Jan 15, 2012, at 10:00 AM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:

> A couple years ago I met a guy filming his hike on the JMT.  He had a
> Canon HD camera.  He made the point of saying that the camera used  
> cards
> rather than having a hard drive because hard drives have been known to
> fail at higher elevations.  Anybody actually ever experience this???
>
> Jeff, just Jeff...