Mountain Shoot advice

Hi,
I'm looking to shoot some snowboarding action later this summer. As a newb, can anyone recommend or advice on shooting in high altitude, cold, high UV conditions. Should I be looking at getting some filters, or keeping my batteries somewhere warm?

Thanks
Geoff

not sure if Barry has been that high but try Barry (Ogofmole)

http://www.phototopix.co.uk/members/ogofmole.html

Barry is exceedingly helpful and does have climbing exp (i think?!?)
UV filters plus maybe some polarising filters

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Hi Geoff, Your biggest problem will be battery life, keep spare batterys in a inside pocket close to your body to keep warm, with all that snow about you should have no problem using fast shutter speeds to get good sharp images as there should be plenty of light, the only filter that I use for the snowboading is a UV as you do not want to slow shutter speeds down, but if you want to take some landscape shots while you are up high then I would recommend a polirizing filter as well. You will have to experiment with exposure checking your histogram, but I would probably suggest using spot metering as it is the snowboarder that you want correctly exposed and use continueuse focusing, so that you only need to worry about composition before shooting.

Plus remember to take plenty of fresh drinking water with you as you will need it at high altitude.

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wow, that's great advice, it seems I've joined the right forum! Thanks again