Great vid Phil!!! Perfect amount of commentary. For someone who has been to Yosemite a lot and even lived there for a summer working for USF. It’s and amazing and magical place, and yes with less vehicles even more amazing, because this time of year it’s normally worse than Disney or Sunset BLVD on a Friday night l🤪🤪 Peace Phil👊
This video brighten my day! Hit a major downpour on a downhill yesterday, lost all grip could not stop for the corner and had to do a emergency flip. landed on my back on cobbles but saved my head and most important my bike. Sore but happy, carbon bike still safe :)
Yosemite really is amazing in person. I total skeptical and pessimistic it was going to overrated or not as majestic as it portrayed in every picture book, magazine, etc. First time driving in seeing El Cap, it was holy sh*t that's incredible and I had to pull over just to take it all in. Same for giant saguaro in Az, no picture can prepare for how cool, bizarre and huge they are. Devil Tower is one monument I really want to see, but its a day to days of driving from anywhere.
I first starting biking while living in the valley, and this made me so homesick! Love that loop around the valley floor. Glad to see it's not too busy and still a great ride!
Lived in Yosemite for 10 years, and had to drive to the Bay Area to get my a** kicked in Cat 3 crits. Still the best time of my life (circa !993...) , and you did The Park justice. Curious what KOMs are in Strava - sorry as a sprinter I can't bring myself to follow regularly - for Glacier Point (from the Valley) and Tioga Pass (E_P_I_C) from either Valley or Lee Vining. I have ridden every paved inch of Yosemite and it's all amazing. Always loved your stuff Phil, thanks for taking me "home" for 13 glorious minutes!!!!!
I really enjoyed this style of video, nice to see that it's not all about going fast all the time (though there is defintiely a time and place for that!)
alex honnold reference as later when they're passing el capitan. don't wanna be a smartass, just wanna promote the great documentary "full solo" where exactly the referenced climbing is being portrayed.
So beautiful. Yosemite is absolutely as beautiful and majestic and amazing as you might possibly dream it is. Emily is a load of fun. Did/does she also race bikes? Dramamine makes me suuuuper sleepy, and I weigh double what she does. I heard Bonine makes you less drowsy, but have not tried it. Thanks for the vid!
Enjoyed your video as always, but two of the rock assholes you were alluding to are Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt.. Both men were instrumental to Yosemite becoming a national park. (With Mt Rushmore dominating the news cycle, I assumed that’s what you were referring to. I see in other comments you were referring to Stone Mtn., near your childhood home. Sorry for my mistake. Thanks for the fun videos!)
MattGrovesFTW Thanks Matt. Of course I’m likely reading it wrong, but the bucko comes across as a little pejorative. Did I inadvertently trigger you? I certainly hope not.
FYI there are no redwoods in Yosemite. They only grow in coastal zones. There are sequoias which are cousins of the redwoods. The coast redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) are the tallest in the world, while giant sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum) are the trees with the largest mass, their trunks often wider than a city street.
I think you’re mistaken. A “redwood” can refer to coastal or mountain sequoia. They aren’t quite the same trees, but they do share the same names. In fact, you can rent a home from the Redwoods agency in Wawona.
@@davewyman thanks. Colloquially perhaps but not accurately. "Sequoias and giant redwoods are often referred to interchangeably, though they are two very different, though equally remarkable, species of tree. Both naturally occurring only in California, these two species share a distinctive cinnamon-colored bark and the proclivity for growing to overwhelming heights. Both also require very specific, though very distinct, climates to survive." www.visitsequoia.com/explore/spring-summer-fall-activities/redwoods-and-sequoias
Wild that you used to ride with Josh Lipka! Ive lived in Western MA for years and he's a well known name, occasionally comes by and smashes KOMs and locals races lol
Phil, the tree you called a redwood was reddish in color. However, it wasn’t a redwood (or a sequoia, it's other name). You were looking at an incense cedar. There are redwoods in Yosemite Valley. You can find some towering over the grave of Galen Clark, who was Yosemite's first national park superintendent. Clark planted the sequoias on his pre-selected gravesite, in the Pioneer Cemetary, well before his death.
Great film Phil. Emily is a natural on camera and very funny. What is the issue with your driving Phil?? Great vibe and scenery to match. Thank-you both. Phil film AND a chilli con carne. Nice. Peace too.
cool video! get a bite mount for your action cam, it's stable, one of the best POV angles and you can hold the handlebar with two hands on the decent and don't die
It looks like there is to set a new strava kom Mt Madonna Rd in Morgan Hill CA/Gilroy CA. It’s 3 miles 1.5 paved the rest is gravel. Pavement is 10-13% max grade 15% dirt is 12-14% max grade 20%
Yosemite is great - but I prefer the "next valley up" - Hwy 4 over Pacific Grade and Ebbetts Pass and back. I love the last part of Hwy 4 from the junction of 4 and 89 heading east. When you think you're over the worst of it at 8700ft at the top of Ebbett's Pass you descend down the other side and hit Pacific Grade. Oh the joy of 25% - but at 8,000ft it feels more like 33%.
Hey phil were I'm at on vashon Island Washington there are Rolling hills and great scenery If you like your cookies Doughy and well I think There amazing, cafe luna Makes them . I worked at The vashon baking company And I can say cafe luna has better cookies.
Phil, why not take part in an English hillclimb season. Typically it's towards the end of the racing season (ie, when it's not skinsuit weather but that's what you wear anyway) and up shortish, steep hills. You should go for a cup o' tea and a bite o' crumpet.
I have a permit for a week+ backpacking trip in two weeks, now I'm wondering if I should risk bringing my bike and locking it in my car so I can ride around the park the day I finish my hike. Mighty tempting.
Suggestion for Phil who says, "I don't know what to tell you," about GF's sleepiness from Dramamine...I suggest you tell her you're sorry and you'll drive more slowly around corners from now on so she doesn't have to self medicate for fear of vomiting.
@@worstretirementever - LOL. True story - my wife woke up yelling from a dream of driving over a cliff this morning. Just had our 36th -- not weeks, years -- anniversary. Love your work, Phil!
GoPro doesn’t do the view from the valley floor justice, not even remotely. When you actually drive through it and see for the first time how insanely tall and massive those walls are, it just sucks the breath right out of you. They’re so tall that when you’re standing underneath El Cap you can’t even see the top of the cliff without extending your neck all the way back. Your neck gets tired after awhile just from trying to look up. To anyone who hasn’t been.. it is 100% worth it. Just go. When you drive through that valley for the first time, you’ll have a memory for the rest of your life.
beautiful area, somewhat ruined by sounding like a New York inner city street and the valley looks like a car lot....degraded by accessability and noise pollution. A Uni professor once said to us before we left, don't go where the heard goes and you'll be all the better for it.
Hey Phil, I saw you riding up Mt. Rose today. I think the view of Lake Tahoe is on par (or a close 2nd) to the Best View in the World. What do you think?
Shame about the car noise : ( although it must be better than usual. The park should be closed to cars except for one day a week. That was a great video, loved the no assholes remark ; )
Awesome in every way, but if you want 'the best view in the world' you should climb the Moraine Lake road in Alberta. Much prettier than this. :-) Of course, you'll have to wait for the border to open first - Americans can't come up here right now due to the crazy high infection rates in the US.
Dude at 36 is breaking climbing records set by doped EPO riders doped for years. No offense you could not even pick up my 1x7 14 kg road bike, let alone ride it. UCI needs to get cycling under control, 10 kg bikes, 10 speed, no electronic shifting crap. Perhaps when dudes finally get back to racing 10 kg bikes, then cycling might be worth seeing, not this latest tech crap garbage.
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*doesnt feel great*
*is filming during attempt*
"Yeah I got the kom by 6 minutes"
Great vid Phil!!! Perfect amount of commentary. For someone who has been to Yosemite a lot and even lived there for a summer working for USF. It’s and amazing and magical place, and yes with less vehicles even more amazing, because this time of year it’s normally worse than Disney or Sunset BLVD on a Friday night l🤪🤪 Peace Phil👊
This video brighten my day! Hit a major downpour on a downhill yesterday, lost all grip could not stop for the corner and had to do a emergency flip. landed on my back on cobbles but saved my head and most important my bike. Sore but happy, carbon bike still safe :)
Emily's comments and reactions made this video. Well, other than the amazing scenery. And the ranger anecdote.
Sometimes it's hard to believe there could be places like that on our planet. It's a visual definision of paradise.
Yosemite really is amazing in person. I total skeptical and pessimistic it was going to overrated or not as majestic as it portrayed in every picture book, magazine, etc. First time driving in seeing El Cap, it was holy sh*t that's incredible and I had to pull over just to take it all in. Same for giant saguaro in Az, no picture can prepare for how cool, bizarre and huge they are. Devil Tower is one monument I really want to see, but its a day to days of driving from anywhere.
Thanks for taking us on such a great ride Phil and Emily. :-) Perfect!
I first starting biking while living in the valley, and this made me so homesick! Love that loop around the valley floor. Glad to see it's not too busy and still a great ride!
Just amazing video. Was there during the Mariposa fires. Love it.
Whats the big bright shinny thing in the sky, Angus from Scotland
It's this thing that makes cycling really, really hot and hard
Thanks Phil, loved the video and landscape, especially now middle of winter in Melbourne 😱. One for the bucket list😊
Lived in Yosemite for 10 years, and had to drive to the Bay Area to get my a** kicked in Cat 3 crits.
Still the best time of my life (circa !993...) , and you did The Park justice. Curious what KOMs are in Strava - sorry as a sprinter I can't bring myself to follow regularly - for Glacier Point (from the Valley) and Tioga Pass (E_P_I_C) from either Valley or Lee Vining. I have ridden every paved inch of Yosemite and it's all amazing. Always loved your stuff Phil, thanks for taking me "home" for 13 glorious minutes!!!!!
I really enjoyed this style of video, nice to see that it's not all about going fast all the time (though there is defintiely a time and place for that!)
Never have I paused a video so many times to enjoy a view! Beautiful 😲😍
I’ve seen tunnel view on Phil and Tyler’s channels so many times and never get tired of seeing it
What a beautiful place, thanks for sharing it with us.
Beautiful! My favorite place in the World! Thanks for sharing...
“I could climb that without any ropes”😂
alex honnold reference as later when they're passing el capitan. don't wanna be a smartass, just wanna promote the great documentary "full solo" where exactly the referenced climbing is being portrayed.
@@Mensch-et3xm i watched free solo the other day on youtube and my palms were sweating during the climb!! pretty intense
So beautiful. Yosemite is absolutely as beautiful and majestic and amazing as you might possibly dream it is. Emily is a load of fun. Did/does she also race bikes? Dramamine makes me suuuuper sleepy, and I weigh double what she does. I heard Bonine makes you less drowsy, but have not tried it. Thanks for the vid!
Thanks for the great idea Phil! I'll be heading up to Yosemite this week with a friend to do this ride and I donated $25 to No Kids Hungry :)
Enjoyed your video as always, but two of the rock assholes you were alluding to are Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt.. Both men were instrumental to Yosemite becoming a national park. (With Mt Rushmore dominating the news cycle, I assumed that’s what you were referring to. I see in other comments you were referring to Stone Mtn., near your childhood home. Sorry for my mistake. Thanks for the fun videos!)
MattGrovesFTW Thanks Matt. Of course I’m likely reading it wrong, but the bucko comes across as a little pejorative. Did I inadvertently trigger you? I certainly hope not.
I figured that was aimed more at Stone Mtn
Nick Schoenemann Good thought Nick.
MattGrovesFTW Not triggered at all Matt. Was more concerned I’d offended you somehow.
MattGrovesFTW Haha, thanks Matt, really nice to meet you too! And appreciate the thoughtful advice.
FYI there are no redwoods in Yosemite. They only grow in coastal zones. There are sequoias which are cousins of the redwoods. The coast redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) are the tallest in the world, while giant sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum) are the trees with the largest mass, their trunks often wider than a city street.
I think you’re mistaken. A “redwood” can refer to coastal or mountain sequoia. They aren’t quite the same trees, but they do share the same names. In fact, you can rent a home from the Redwoods agency in Wawona.
@@davewyman thanks. Colloquially perhaps but not accurately. "Sequoias and giant redwoods are often referred to interchangeably, though they are two very different, though equally remarkable, species of tree. Both naturally occurring only in California, these two species share a distinctive cinnamon-colored bark and the proclivity for growing to overwhelming heights. Both also require very specific, though very distinct, climates to survive." www.visitsequoia.com/explore/spring-summer-fall-activities/redwoods-and-sequoias
Amazing place ! One of the worlds best rides . It must be up there !
Beauty! Thank you!
Wild that you used to ride with Josh Lipka! Ive lived in Western MA for years and he's a well known name, occasionally comes by and smashes KOMs and locals races lol
Good to know!
“And here’s what a big pretty rock looks like without any assholes carved in to it”
😂 👏🏻DEAD
Emily, you’re the real MVP in this!
Phil, the tree you called a redwood was reddish in color. However, it wasn’t a redwood (or a sequoia, it's other name). You were looking at an incense cedar. There are redwoods in Yosemite Valley. You can find some towering over the grave of Galen Clark, who was Yosemite's first national park superintendent. Clark planted the sequoias on his pre-selected gravesite, in the Pioneer Cemetary, well before his death.
Great film Phil. Emily is a natural on camera and very funny. What is the issue with your driving Phil?? Great vibe and scenery to match. Thank-you both. Phil film AND a chilli con carne. Nice. Peace too.
C'mon over to Ireland Phil! Some decent KoM's to take
He was in kerry before but never went for koms
@smokey - did you bang your head?
Absolutely stunning views Phil
Josh lipka comes out to western mass every September to smash the bike leg of the josh Billings triathlon.... that’s what’s he’s up too
It would be such a nice place without all the cars, I can't even imagine how crowded it is when there is free access.
cool video! get a bite mount for your action cam, it's stable, one of the best POV angles and you can hold the handlebar with two hands on the decent and don't die
The prettiest destination ever! How many people other than me, grabbed a screenshot of El Capitan?
"heres what a big rock looks like without any assholes carved into it" You're iconic Phil
It looks like there is to set a new strava kom
Mt Madonna Rd in Morgan Hill CA/Gilroy CA.
It’s 3 miles 1.5 paved the rest is gravel.
Pavement is 10-13% max grade 15% dirt is 12-14% max grade 20%
Those views are amazing
FYI Phil, you're close! Will went to Harvard for undergrad and then UC Davis for grad school (I raced against him during his grad school time).
Great video!
Yosemite is great - but I prefer the "next valley up" - Hwy 4 over Pacific Grade and Ebbetts Pass and back. I love the last part of Hwy 4 from the junction of 4 and 89 heading east. When you think you're over the worst of it at 8700ft at the top of Ebbett's Pass you descend down the other side and hit Pacific Grade. Oh the joy of 25% - but at 8,000ft it feels more like 33%.
Just drove that way. Holy shit
Hey phil were I'm at on vashon
Island Washington there are
Rolling hills and great scenery
If you like your cookies
Doughy and well I think
There amazing, cafe luna
Makes them . I worked at
The vashon baking company
And I can say cafe luna has better cookies.
Phil, why not take part in an English hillclimb season. Typically it's towards the end of the racing season (ie, when it's not skinsuit weather but that's what you wear anyway) and up shortish, steep hills. You should go for a cup o' tea and a bite o' crumpet.
Wish you would come to Michigan so I had some giant goals to reach
I feel like the 7 dislikes Phil gets are consistent enough that its just some people who are still upset about years-old KOM losses.
I have a permit for a week+ backpacking trip in two weeks, now I'm wondering if I should risk bringing my bike and locking it in my car so I can ride around the park the day I finish my hike. Mighty tempting.
"Fat and really into Counterstrike" That certainly brings me back...
Love Yosemite! I just took a screenshot
Big shoutout to Emily tbh 🌟
Great ride. Will do that some day
Free solo...documentary about a guy who Free climbed that freakin monster El Cap, very good highly recommended.
Thanks for the respect and good luck with that.
The intro should show putting chamois butter on a chain.
Maybe one of your best ever videos.. i wish the tunnel view part where you set the camera on a rock was a lot longer.
Suggestion for Phil who says, "I don't know what to tell you," about GF's sleepiness from Dramamine...I suggest you tell her you're sorry and you'll drive more slowly around corners from now on so she doesn't have to self medicate for fear of vomiting.
Is that what you did with your ex wife?
@@worstretirementever - LOL. True story - my wife woke up yelling from a dream of driving over a cliff this morning. Just had our 36th -- not weeks, years -- anniversary. Love your work, Phil!
GoPro doesn’t do the view from the valley floor justice, not even remotely. When you actually drive through it and see for the first time how insanely tall and massive those walls are, it just sucks the breath right out of you. They’re so tall that when you’re standing underneath El Cap you can’t even see the top of the cliff without extending your neck all the way back. Your neck gets tired after awhile just from trying to look up. To anyone who hasn’t been.. it is 100% worth it. Just go. When you drive through that valley for the first time, you’ll have a memory for the rest of your life.
Does the Wahoo Bolt do Live Segments without having your phone / app with you??
Yes it syncs with the phone but works by itself after
@@worstretirementever Thank you sir!
It looks like the traffic was light? When we went last year the traffic was crazy! Would love to do that ride if traffic wasn't crazy!
More videos with Emily in them. Scene stealer!!
Emily! My ears, I'm 46, my eyes are going South too :/
beautiful area, somewhat ruined by sounding like a New York inner city street and the valley looks like a car lot....degraded by accessability and noise pollution. A Uni professor once said to us before we left, don't go where the heard goes and you'll be all the better for it.
Hey Phil, I saw you riding up Mt. Rose today. I think the view of Lake Tahoe is on par (or a close 2nd) to the Best View in the World. What do you think?
I see the fit with Emily . She has a smart ass side .
Shame about the car noise : ( although it must be better than usual. The park should be closed to cars except for one day a week. That was a great video, loved the no assholes remark ; )
Amazing views
9:17 “now here’s what a big pretty rock looks like without any assholes carved into it” XD
9:17 Phil I like your shot at Stone Mountain haha
And Rushmore.
Telling her she's fine. You like living on the edge, or it was the greatest double entendre.
It's ok Emily, Dramamine does the same to me!!!
Looks nice out there.
glancing at el capitan, and a no thanks alex, was not a reference to alex howes or alex trebek.
Alex Honnold. He climbed El Capitan without a rope. There is a good documentary about it on Disney+.
you didn't see the hits, you saw what you can drive to.
Love Yosemite
What's the sticker on your top tube?
love you Phil, but PLEASE get a wind dampening mike !
You show Honnold how to get around on a bike, I'm sure he'll show you how to climb!
Gawd all those fucking cars ruin it. I love Yosemite, but Zion NP does it right -- only the park buses and bicycles are allowed.
Classic Phil: filming and narrating during KOM attempt - at the top "legs not awesome" Gets KOM by +6:00 😂
Awesome in every way, but if you want 'the best view in the world' you should climb the Moraine Lake road in Alberta. Much prettier than this. :-) Of course, you'll have to wait for the border to open first - Americans can't come up here right now due to the crazy high infection rates in the US.
Wait Phil is a gamer?
9:17 😂
Counter-Strike.. Yes!
Phil : love your work but please, WIND SOCK.
7:29 definitely an incense cedar, not a redwood
phil can we please get go pro to send you a hero 8 black and a real microphone?
"...can't do this with a MacBook..."
Not me, I could still hear you talking
I can sleep on my MacBook all day!
Views are amazing but if that's it quiet, eh no thanks! Hardly anytime without cars rumbling past? 🤷♂️😕
It's hard to avoid that in any valley. You know, cause there usually is just one road along that thing. But you are right, annoying never the less.
cool, you can start to do “reaction videos”. j take gf to places she’s never been, by bike. 🤣
Go Fireflies!
Now do the Clouds Rest KOM :)
How do you not wear gloves? When it's hot, my hands slide all over the handlebars.
Great view. Would be better without the car noise.
Big rock with no assholes carved into it! I so died when you said that, i am Native and I LOVED IT!!
Is, Ellie, I think you said Ellie, your sister?
Emily. Girlfriend. I like her, don't you?
I loved the video except that big stupid line of cars (not your fault)
Top tips on women cyclists making You Tube vLogs? :)
@9:25 haha
Dude at 36 is breaking climbing records set by doped EPO riders doped for years.
No offense you could not even pick up my 1x7 14 kg road bike, let alone ride it. UCI needs to get cycling under control, 10 kg bikes, 10 speed, no electronic shifting crap. Perhaps when dudes finally get back to racing 10 kg bikes, then cycling might be worth seeing, not this latest tech crap garbage.
you sure you didnt want to retire someplace a bit safer, like syria maybe?
Emily needs to tighten up her chin strap a bit.