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Thanks a lot! Hope you get to do it too some day :)

haha no worries, as a cyclist one should always watch out for them. Most of all I'm grateful how quickly people came to help me, called an ambulance for me and translated for us. So in a way this incident improved my perception of Bulgaria :)

Thank you so much :) I’m sure you’ll have a wonderful time, enjoy the adventure!

Thank you! Maybe you’re already on the trail and have figured everything out by now. I didn’t know about the booking until I arrived at the first refuge 😅 so I had to book the other places while on trail. Alternatively you can pay double the price when you didn’t book beforehand. Or camp wild which I did sometimes, but during high season it’s more likely that you’ll be fined by the rangers

Danke :)

And sick area to experience :O The forests, the "mountain huts" aka free airbnb apartments, the rock formations.. glad you enjoyed the days

⁠@@philhamann420 haha yea hiking with “mountain apartments” is awesome. Nice to hike without a tent for a change

Thanks for the kind words! How cool that it brought back some great memories. Northern Scandinavia is really a massive adventure playground :)

Hey, I started the trail on the 29th of August and finished 15 days later in September. I was quite lucky with the weather, the sun was shining every day. But precisely on the days before I started the trail and after I finished it, there were massive thunderstorms with lots of rain. The sunny weather also helped me keep my electronics charged, because during the whole trip I charged all my devices with a portable solar panel from Anker. Worked really well. At the refuges there are also some electricity outlets, but often there’s not enough of them for all the hikers. Cool that you’re also planning on doing the trek! I think the weather in June should be great. Good luck with that!

Yes I did bring my Katadyn befree filter which I used every now and then to filter river water in the valleys. But I wouldn’t say that it’s necessary to bring one. On most days you pass several clean water sources on the GR20, and of course the Refuges have clean water. But you always have to check the map for water sources before you start hiking. Often you have to hike for many hours without water sources, so it’s always smart to fill up at least 2L when you pass a source

Hey Lucy, thanks for the kind comment and feedback! I’m happy you enjoyed the video and the editing. I actually made the maps from scratch, using a simple painting tool in a photo editing software. I used a GR20 map from the internet as a template in a layer which I later removed. For each day on the trail, I painted the distance that I hiked on that day in the map. In the end I exported the map as a PNG file, so that you can still see the video through the map. I have never properly learned how to do this kind of stuff, so there’s probably better ways to do it, but I was happy with the result :) I hope you can make it to Corsica this year for the GR20! It can look quite different there in October compared to when I did the trail in early September. You could check out the TH-cam video from my friend Phil Hamann (it’s also his name on TH-cam) who did the GR20 in the middle of last October.

@@butwhatsoutthere Thank you so much for your reply. It looks great(the maps), sounds like lots effort to do. But I like enjoying this kind of editing and now I even more appreciate your video. Thank you for your tip I will have look on your friends video. All best Lucy

@@butwhatsoutthere just looked for your friends video and it was actually first video i watched on gr20 and when i seen he did it october I started thinking maybe i can make it this october 😄

Danke, ja ich habe auf jeden Fall auch viel geschwitzt in der Hitze😅

Thank you! I’m looking forward to editing the next episode as well :)

Well, in moments like that, when we get invited and meet people, I like to interact and talk with them, and not always want to put my camera in their face and film the moment! Maybe I’ll have to do it sometime, it’s probably better content, but I don’t always feel comfortable with that. If you really want to see them, you’ll have to go visit yourself ;)

@@butwhatsoutthere if you want to tell a real story …. you have to talk to them, give them a nice feeling and from time to time photograph them. that’s the real thing. you don’t show any of it. best regards

I don’t really understand, why you are commenting. First of all, I love to talk to local people and also learned Russian to be able to communicate with lots of people in this region. I don’t think that always photographing people makes an adventure „the real thing“. Plenty of travelers (if not most) do not make TH-cam videos or take pictures for Instagram, but that doesn’t mean that their adventure isn’t „the real thing“? Having a camera often changes interactions in my experience, so I choose when I want to film and when I want to just be in the moment. I love filming nature, action and adventures, I’m just a bit shy when it comes to filming strangers because I don’t want to cause them discomfort. There’s lots of beautiful memories with my Italian friends and with Georgians we met along the way, that aren’t on camera :) So I think it’s not so nice of you to tell me something about „the real thing…“ - my adventure felt pretty real!

@@butwhatsoutthere why do I comment, I stumbled over this video and saw most of the time the face of a young man, sometimes a landscape or Georgia. showing less of the young mans face and more of Georgia would tell us more about that beautiful country. I have been three times in Georgia with the bike. Georgia is much more than a young mans face. now, you could think about it a moment, do you want to show Georgia or yourself. also you can delete my comments. and be happy with all the ""fantastic again"" comments.

thank you! will be out on Sunday:)

Thank you! You don’t necessarily have to bring a gas can, or just a small one to be safe. All the refuges have gas stoves where you can cook, and next to these stoves a lot of people leave their own gas cans for others to take. So I was able to cook my own food every night without having to bring my own gas. Wish you all the best for your hike!

On this hike I mainly used my GoPro 10 and for close up shots of nature I used my iPhone

Thank you! I’m glad the feeling of freedom comes across through the video :)

Thanks! You can find some infos on the location of the hike in the video description :)

it's called Breathe In, Breathe Out from Mattias Tell. I love it as well!

Well then you can recommend it to your boss so he knows why you’re late haha ;) Glad you enjoyed watching!

Ja, die Natur war wirklich abwechslungsreich, man hat sich an der Aussicht nie sattgesehen!

just missing local people apart from the two we have seen.

Thank you :)

Yeah I learned that on the way😅

We saw plenty of crosses on the side of the road, marking victims of accidents… and given how narrow and steep it is, and the terrain with waterfalls crossing the road and the danger of landslides and avalanches, lots of travel guides mark it as „one of the most dangerous roads in the world“…

@@butwhatsoutthere have done that route three times. yes there are plenty of memory places of tracing accidents. but the road is still not dangerous, at least to me;):

Thank you! I’m looking forward to editing the next one as well :)

Thank you :)

Danke, freut mich, dass dir das Video gefällt!

You can buy food items and dinner at the refuges, but I avoided doing this as it is extremely expensive. So I carried almost all my food for the first section. In Castel de Vergio is a small store where I stocked up a bit. In Vizzavona, which is roughly the halfway point of the hike, I took a train to Corte where I went to a big supermarket and bought all the food that I needed for the second half of the trail. You can also shop food in Vizzavona itself at a campground, but again, quite expensive. here and there I bought some snacks or drinks at the refuges. Sometimes there are Bergeries (mountain farm huts) along the way, but very few actually have food. I usually ate oatmeal for breakfast, dried bread with peanut butter or soups for lunch and for dinner I usually had couscous with lentils. Hope this helps :)

thank you! It was very challenging indeed, but also very rewarding!

thank you:)

yess danke dir! Werd hier auf TH-cam auch bald content zum ersten Rennen bringen :)