it's the easiest way to film yourself and others while skiing; you don't even need to bring a backpack if you want to make a decent edit of a days skiing...
The GoPro is simply an enabler; it enables everyone to make edits of themselves and their friends; wether it's a good edit completely depends on who films/edits with the camera...
there are people filming with 3000$ cameras that bring out edits that i simply skip through within the first 30seconds and there are GoPro edits like the USC skiteam edits by NS member Abek that i enjoy watching, even more than once....
so to all people crying in here: if you don't like em; don't watch em
and if you are crying because now everyone can make good edits and you feel sacked with your 3000$ camera, go film good stuff, it's not the camera that determines how an edit turns out, it's who operates it ....