Bikepacking the Pennine Bridleway - Day 1
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- Day 1 of a week long ride on the Pennine Bridleway. I've sort of forgotten how to make videos from the road, plus I'm on a new phone and my mic broke.
Hopefully you might enjoy the scenery and even glean some useful details if you are thinking of doing this one yourself.
I've got 7 days to finish so hopefully there will be 7 videos. Subscribe to see the rest if you haven't already.
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In this video I mention my first ever long trip and how I passed that same spot back then. More recently I told the story of that trip, and how it impacted my life and the decisions I have made since, in another video which proves unusually popular.
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Beautiful scenery, nice music and well presented. Really enjoyed this video. Off to look for day two now. 😎👍
Awesome, thank you!
There is a whole weeks worth for your viewing pleasure if you can stomach it ;)
It was a fantastic route to ride. Really hard, harder than I expected, but definitely worth it.
@@JethroJessop On day 4 now, love your style of presentation, you made me chuckle quite a few times. Gonna subscribe.
@@barnseyb6031 glad you are enjoying it and thanks for the sub, I appreciate the support.
Only a few more days of that trip to get through but hopefully you'll find some other bits and pieces to enjoy as well
Hallo Jethro - you gave me a sense of universal spring - nice photo!
It's a fantastic part of the world. Only thing I miss is forest. Hardly see any trees up here.
Need to get back to Sweden for good tree hugging sometime
I thoroughly enjoyed this video- another ride another gem . Thanks for making it easy to dream about adventures to come! Be safe and enjoy
Adventures to come indeed! Bring them on!
How old is appropriate to start teaching a baby how to make fire? 😉
Nice one. 👍
Cheers buddy 😀
The birdsong in this video is beautiful, I could listen to that for hours! Even if that does make me sound like a weirdo..haha.
Another little adventure begins..but this time, I'm going to pace myself and take a break between each episode (rather that watching the whole lot in one foul swoop).
I have not been following this channel for that long, but it is fast becoming one of my favourites on You tube.
It's been nice to have the full "catalogue" of your adventures to follow; but I'm quite aware that if I continue at this rate, I'm going to run out pretty quickly..haha. So a more sedate pace is required..haha!
Thanx Jethro, you take care buddy.
I'm glad you are enjoying the vids but, yeah, definitely slow down a bit. I wish I was able to be more frequent with my uploads but the reality is that if I get 3 out in a month that is good going.
As soon as I go super viral and quit work to be a full time cycle poet then I'll up my game a bit but until then you'll have to exercise some self control.
Of course, if you decide you want to watch them all again while you wait I'm not goin to complain 😉
Nice one. Beautiful bird song at the end. Looks a great route. Would love to ride it and continue on up to Cape Wrath.
It is stunning. Hard riding but really fantastic landscapes.
I can also hear Cape Wrath calling but alas I have only a week and at the rate I'm going I'll be hard pressed to make the northern end of this trail 😉
One day though. The GNT is on my list. It's a long list but that one is fairly near the top
@@JethroJessop Are you en route at the moment?
@@alexmorgan3435 I am. Will be completing it over the coming week. Hopefully 😉
Nice work again Jethro. Not too dissimilar to where I was yesterday down in Princetown. Hope it goes well on the PBW. I've found a gem of a route down on the West Country.
Nice! Is it a route you can share?
I'm always keen to see new rides and spend some time looking at maps 😉
@@JethroJessop Sure Jethro. Let me know the best way to get it to you. I'll scan the route when I'm home
Enjoying following you on this trail already 😀.
Glad to hear it. I'd sort of forgotten how to make videos from the road so I'm glad they finding the mark.
More to come soon, I need to have an editing session and find decent data to upload the next installment 😀
Looks like nice weather! 🏞☀️🏕
I'm so pleased you are riding on the Pennine Bridleway. Some beautiful scenery and a great spot to camp. JP
It is amazing. Hard riding but incredible countryside. And so far I've unbroken sunshine which is not what I was expecting but is very welcome.
I've got another stunning pitch tonight which will feature in a later video no doubt
nice one jethro. great to be back out again. cold mornings n all....njoy
Thanks, I did. Have just finished the ride today so the rest of the videos will start trickling in now over coming weeks.
It was an amazing ride but probably the hardest I have ever done.
Never pushed up so many hills in a single ride before!
good on ya jethro
Great video, can't wait to see the rest.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it. More coming soon!
Glad to see you out riding again. Great video and what a beautiful country!
Glad to be out again. It's been a long time (and my legs are reminding me of that constantly). Glad you enjoyed the vid. I'd got very used to editing on a laptop with proper software so I'm trying to remember how it all works on the phone still
Looks like no worries to me.
@@garylindberg2492 glad to hear it
Really enjoyed this video! The birds chirping really cleared my mind :)
There are so many birds on this trail!
Lots of species that I don't see round my way as well which is cool. I just wish I was better at identifying them
Well done Jethro! Great video quality and beautiful countryside. Hope to see you here in sunny Wales this year 🙏
Thanks. A trip to Wales should definitely be on the cards. I have a load of trips I'd like to to do this summer so we shall see how many I get ticked off ;)
Thank you for the birdsong, lovely!! Happy cycling.
Lots of birds on this one. Most unidentified but definitely a few curlew's and some larks
Looks fantastic! Such a beautiful trail🌳✨
It is stunning but it is hard. Harder than I'd imagined.
The weather has been great though, the views are amazing and I'm just about keeping up with my schedule!
Great video Jethro, actually inspired me to pack my surly and get out for the night, i did this route a few years ago. Great content and very refreshing, cheers dude
You did the PBW? How did you find it?
I've just finished it today and found it really hard!
So many steep climbs and really rough surfaces. It was amazing but probably the hardest week in the saddle I have done.
JJ...great stuff...really inspiring 👍
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it
What a beautiful start to your weeklong adventure - gorgeous! Glad to see that you managed to escape for some sanity and nurturance for your soul. Stay safe and be well!
It was a much needed to indeed.
Turned out to be an incredibly hard ride but a really great one.
I just finished it today so more videos will be coming soon
@@JethroJessop Brilliant! Cheers!
Nice! I recognized some parts - including the climb near Cromford Canal - from my own cycling in the Peak District last summer. I loved cycling in England.
That was a big climb. But I had fresh legs then and got up it ok. Done a few more since then and they seem to getting harder!
It is a great place to ride, I'm enjoying this one a lot but it is hard compared to other rides I've done.
Awesome video
Thank you very much :)
Some of the views are really spectacular. At 3:50 forinstance. Nice shot for game of thrones (I managed to squeeze myself through season 1 and season 2 first couple of episodes. But that was it, had some mental allergy against this TV show. Some nice nature shots though. Hence....)
Looking forward the rest of your trip.
I saw one episode. Don't really do TV though.
But yeah, definitely some great places to film fantasy epics round here.
Glad you enjoyed it. In theory there are 6 more to come so hopefully I can hold your attention better than GoT did 😉
@@JethroJessop without a doubt
Loving the film so far.
I think i'm right in saying this is a TH-cam first to bikepack/film the whole trail.
I looked into doing it in 2019, but at the wise old age of 51, i decided it would be a bit to much for me. That and i don't have a full suspension bike. I'm still quite old school with my old Muddy Fox that iv'e owned since 1997.
Looking fwd to the next 6 chapters.
Is it indeed? Well, I should have made more a fanfare about that I expect :)
If it is then the reason is that it is a really hard trail. I'd probably say the hardest ride I've ever done. Even on a full sus bike just riding that surface and those climbs with all your kit would be a challenge.
I want to see someone do it on a horse! As it's a bridleway you'd assume someone would have other the Mary Towney back in the day. I don't know anything about riding horses but I would have said a lot of the hills I climbed where not possible on horseback.
Some 6 years since I did this. Middleton Top to Tideswell.
Day 2 Tideswell to Uppermill.
Day 3 Uppermill to Hebden Bridge
Day 4 Hebden Bridge to Burnley.
Its a great but hard ride. It was a lot harder than I expected.
Loved it though, even when I had to get off and push ;)
That was fun to watch! I actually rode the Tissington and High Peak trails back in 1988. I'd intended to go down the incline but chickened out and took the road detour instead,
Excellent, good stuff.
It was the tissington trail that I did in 2010 but I didn't realise how close it was to the PBW. Shows how much research I do for these rides 😉
@@JethroJessop It looks like you crossed the Monsal valley just after they'd re-opened the trail. Did you see any of that? There had been some (risk of?) rockfall in a cutting a little east of Blackwell Mill.
@@TorstenLif I saw nothing. Your local knowledge is lead better than mine 😉
If there was anything like that going on I passed by oblivious
@Jethro Jessop Nah, it just happens that the Monsal trail is one of the items on my bucket list for when we're free to visit other countries again. So I looked up your route on Google maps and the cycle hire place mentioned that they were opening up again, after the trail had been temporarily closed. And that descent you did is one I'm considering to get down there from the High Peak trail. Or maybe I'll go down from the north along the bit where you pushed your bike up. It's all about connecting those lovely trails with minimal backtracking. But I'm not nearly as adventurous as you. My rig is very far from bikepacking.
@@TorstenLif well there is a lot of really great exploring to be done in this part of the world. But be ready to climb some hills, don't think you can easily avoid them 😉
Great first installment of what I’m sure will be a most interesting series! Looking forward to the next leg of the trip.
Question: when riding on the canal towpaths, is there generally sufficient headroom under the arched bridges for a cyclist, or is this something that requires a bit of care? I have learned from watching various narrowboat channels that the vertical clearances are often pretty tight even out in the center of the spans.
They are mostly ok but you do have to keep an eye out as a few are quite tight. You also have to go careful as there is often no room for two people to pass underneath and no rail to stop one of you going in the drink :)
Really enjoying this series of videos. What microphone were you using on the phone? I like your setup for recording videos it seems nice and simple
Glad you are enjoying the vids!
For the first half of this first day I was using the Rode Smartlav+ mic but for the rest of these Pennine Bridleway vids I just used the built in mic on my phone (Pixel 5), hence the wind noise.
I have just bought another SmartLav+ so should be back to my old (fairly low) standard of audio soon :)
My setup now is a GoPro 3 Way selfie stick/tripod with a Quadlock mount and little clips that I made using Sugru to hold the mic cable in place. This means I can easily switch the phone between the selfie stick and the Quadlock mount on my bike if need it for navigation.
I'm constantly on the verge of buying a drone to try and up my filming game but I just don't know if I would actually use it that much in the wild for the extra hassle of carrying it around.
.. nice videos, ,, I find a cheap foam visor with curley cord cost $1 are cooler and keep sun off eyes even if looks a bit amateurish but who cares,,, still looking for a bivvy tent that doesn't leak....
If it does the job then don't knock it.
I've not experience with bivvy tents I'm afraid. You talking just the tube with space for your head type of thing?
Will you resupply at some point or do you carry enough bananas for all seven days?
I'd need a couple of pack horses to carry that many bananas!
I travel pretty heavy and a lot of it is food but I generally hit a shop every 2 or three days
@@JethroJessop spoons?
@@craiglycke6170 there will be spoons but I didn't get a chance to do any whittling on this trip. The evenings were really cold so I generally just got straight into the tent and zipped up.
I'll get back on it once I'm home.
Great video. With regards to camping is it typical to just find a spot? Is it legal? Any advice on what not to do? I'm just trying to understand the situation as I would love to try this and I am a complete novice. Thanks
In England it is technically illegal to wild camp pretty much everywhere.
I only do it in places where I can be pretty certain I'm not going to disturb anyone and will ideally go completely unnoticed.
If you are considerate and responsible then you will generally be fine. Don't stay for more than a night, don't have fires where you shouldn't, don't climb fences or pitch on crops. read up on Leave No Trace and stick to it.
In my experience, if you pitch quietly, out of sight of everyone and you move on leaving nothing but a flat patch of grass you will be fine. If anyone does ask you to move on you apologise politely and do as they ask without argument.
If you want to try it somewhere you have a right to do it then look at Scotland and maybe some parts of the moors down in the West country (can't remember which).
Further afield, Sweden and Norway both protect a right to wild camp and are amazing destinations to explore.
I'm not an expert on the details of all this though and I believe there are moves afoot to change the legal status of trespassing in England that might make all this harder.
Do additional research, don't take my word for it. Be sensible, have fun and if you find any great spots then let me know 😉
@@JethroJessop thanks for the answer. I have just started getting into bikepacking. I will stick with official campsites for now. I still need to learn more and get more experience before moving onto wild camping. Thanks for the great, down to earth videos
@@Liquidian I didn't really wild camp until I'd been to Sweden where it actively encouraged. After that I was less nervous about the practicalities of it.
That said, I actually love using official campsites, you often meet other travellers in them and having a shower at the end of a day riding is always nice.
It's all about just being out there and having an adventure.
Glad you liked the video, thanks for watching
far from the madding crowd..........no mike.... the pictures tell the story
If theres anything better on TH-cam I'll eat my shorts....
Your shorts are safe. There isn't anything out there that even come close! I've looked and I'm completely unbiased 😉