Man finds GoPro on family property, looks for owner

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ST. GEORGE — A southern Utah man is looking for the owner of a GoPro camera his family found Monday while looking over their property on Cedar Mountain.

Derick Drake, of St. George, was with his father and mother on some family property just past Brian Head Monday afternoon when his mother noticed a small device in the grass, he said. When he looked at it, he realized it was a GoPro camera in a water-protective case.

“My mom was actually the one who noticed it on the ground,” Drake said. “I looked down and realized, ‘that’s a GoPro camera, that’s not just nothing.’ ”

Though the case was yellowed and worn, Drake said the camera was in mint condition. He was even able to replay some of the footage with timestamps from 2011. Drake said it appears from the footage that a snowmobiler was wearing it on a backpack when it fell off on his family’s property and landed in the snow. That recording is about 45 minutes long.

Drake was compelled to reach out to the media because he knows what it’s like to misplace equipment. On a recent trip to Thailand, he lost his own GoPro camera and was unable to locate it.

“That’s why I am kind of putting it back in the universe. Maybe I can get mine back,” he said.

Anyone with information can contact the author at crosenlof@ksl.com.

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