The Trail to Kazbegi
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2024
- Experience the feature story: features.bikemag.com/kazbegi/
What happens when four like-minded adventurers head into one of the world’s wildest mountain ranges with nothing but their mountain bikes and enough food to survive for 10 days?
The answer? What doesn’t happen? Terrifying lightning storms. Raging-river crossings. Snow-covered glacial pass traverses. Mind-melting descents. Constant fights with vicious dogs. Tense encounters with over-zealous border-patrol guards.
All of the above were just another day following “The Trail to Kazbegi,” a self-supported mountain-bike mission through the highest reaches of the Caucasus Mountains in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. Our four-man team-adventure filmmaker Joey Schusler, Bike magazine editor Brice Minnigh, photographer Ross Measures and mountain man Sam Seward-spent half of June 2015 exploring the crown jewels of the Georgian High Caucasus on a feature assignment for Bike.
Along the way our crew overcame countless obstacles and experienced some of the most spectacular scenery and trails they had ever encountered. They also were treated to the unparalleled hospitality of the Georgian people and the benign indifference of the elements on their quest to reach the magnificent Mount Kazbek. In the process, they cemented lasting friendships and proved, yet again, that life is simply better in the mountains.
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Awesome film. Great adventure. Beautiful to see the riding in the high mountains in a really remote area. It's sad that this only has 516 views but funny cat and dog videos are pushing 20 million.
Georgia is such a fantastic country, so glad this film exists, i had brutal food poisoning when i was in Kazbegi, while bed ridden was dreaming of cycling or hiking there, thanks for showing me what i missed out on!
it is an awesome and amazing video! thank you guys! I am relay lucky, because it's my home, I am living there, in Kazbegi, Georgia.
you have such a beautiful country! it's freaking amazing!
hi
I have a lot of respect and love for your people and the border guards for laying down the law in a good way, protecting travelers who want to try but really have no concept of the danger ahead. If they had been like "Yeah, whatever, go for it, ya Western idiots, this is open country" this story seems likely to have ended badly.
Will there be snow covered areas in 23rd to 29th October this year in Georgia?
Enjoyed watching the story! It felt so appropriate and native to me. I'm from the North-West of Azerbaijan. Big thanks to Bikemag!
This is exactly what we need more of. Great work all!
This is mountain biking at its best! Just keep up!
I'm so proud as Georgian now , really appreciate you guys
Loving these adventure style, documentary videos. Good job guys.
just revisited this gem. I live in a place where the mtns blow me away everyday and the mountains in Georgia make me jealous!
The view is breathtaking.
one of the greatest things ever filmed in Georgia. you guys are just great! thanks a lot!
Inspiring stuff... What an adventure!
Georgia tourism bureau loves you guys
Fantastic work guys. Thanks to Bike for running the recent bikepacking gear article. That and this video are inspiring me to get out and do it.
This is amazing video, thanks for shearing your awesome adventure in Georgia to us. I feel so happy that you understood what can suggest my country.
“Ой блядь, что такое? Американское пиво Sierra Nevada!” Love the feature and the film! Great job guys! Keep 'em coming.
I thoroughly enjoyed this film,more please
Video is incredible. Wish there were more like this for sure!! Shows a whole new side of mountain biking!!
guys I'm Georgian too, Speleoler and mountainer and next time if u gonna visit to Georgia, I suggest u to visit Tobavarchkhili... I cant go there with u cuz I live in US too : )) but if u gonna back check this place..
WELCOME TO GEORGIA FRIENDS!!!
Will there be snow covered areas in 23rd to 29th October this year in Georgia?
Geez this should be a major motion picture!!! Killer Video!
incredible video...I liked it so much...I've been an MTB rider for 15 years and I wish I was a little younger to take a tour on these trails!!
Congratulations on your adventure
Inspired me for last couple of days to make plans for two mountain trips first thing in spring.
Thanks for making this vid guys, you do awesome job and keep on doing!
Incredibly well made film. The soles of my feet now itch terribly and I want to quit my job and go there.
Thanks for the video - nice trail !
Have been to Georgia last summer - Amazing country and people !
One of the best adventure I've seen so far!
ahh, so stoked I came across this in my bikepacking trip research. this video/adventure is EPIC!
Good job guys!!! Great adventure!!!
Amazing video! You are all so brave and nice guys! Thanks for this awasome film and best of luck!
Beautiful !good to see the other side .nice film and shots ! Nice music 😊wonderful people . Glad i came across this video .
i love epic adventure stories like this.. this is my kind of mountain biking. cheers from Cebu Philippines!. :)
Guys, Thank you for this amazing video
Wow. Nice video, epic shots. We did the trail from Tbilisi to Omalo and further up to Atsunta Pass and made it to Shatli this year. It was definitly the most amazing, exhaustive and intense enduro trip I did in my life. Good to see the same paths that we traveled.
Thank you for this video. It will attract many tourists. Unfortunately, we are absolutely unpopular
Jaw droppingly awesome adventure doc and Brian Jonestown Massacre!
amazing video!!! amazing place!!! Great thing......!
nice place. nice bike. and nice backsound. tossss
TOP amazing video and trip!
Wow! just....Wow!
Great Job!
My Georgia
Superb! Keep my mouth open a few times! Woahh!!
This was excellent. Good job. I want to go.
Thank you very much for all of this
amazing landscape. awesome video and narrating.
Great job uncle ;)
REALLY don't understand why the fuck this video has 15 dislikes, it's really one epic amazing and BEAUTIFUL video!! I always want do do those kind of tours, and I really appreciate that you film them! Georgia is EPIC!
Great movie. Awesome journey guise.
Good job vino good times. still riding my bike
Absolutely awesome!
What an amazing video about a off the beaten track country! The landscape is so surreal.. Is there a way to share the GPS route log or a mapped route? I hope to go along the same route some day, thanks Bike Magazine and Yeti Cycles
I havenot watched this for a while but I think it gets better with age good times
Did it last summer, thanks for inspiration !!
well done
SUPER!!!!! მაგრები ხართ ;)
Awesome video you have inspired us to create videos like this thanks.
Great inspiration and an amazing adventure! :)
Fantastic video, keep adventuring hard.
Amazing video! Greetings from Moscow! Waiting for you ripping some russian trail too.
+Александр Али the trails in Russia must be amazing... such vast wilderness untapped
Stunning!!!!
Super awsome !!cheers guys!
This video should last something like 2 hours at least.
Came here to post that exact statement.
Man, I still want to do a epic trip like this
amazing guys, amazing!
Beautifull !!! Love it !!!
Wow superb experience weeha😅⚔️🙏👌
nice video...good trips
That would be my dream bike trip
Very specified question coming up: I noticed that Brice Minnigh was using flat-pedals(i think?), and was wondering what shoes he was using for this trip? I am a bit more of an adventurous mountain-biker myself(not at this scale though... yet...), I have to Hike-a-Bike quite a lot in slippery terrain, which sucks with "skateboard-like" shoes, and I´d much prefer sticking to flat-pedals. I can´t really find any flat-pedal specific shoes that gravitate towards adventure, more than downhill and the conventional trail ride...
Great video! Super jealous!
Still a brilliant video good times
Dudes are hard core, bikin' bad asses!!!!!!!
I'm envious
just amazing gents next time take me with you wont you
inspirational -- respect
Amazing! ! go Yeti
pure dead brilliant video i wish i was 20 years younger
Hi Guys,Thanks for the fab. video. The landscape is amazing. I've already booked my ticket to Tbilisi. I'm going to spend there two weeks. Although, I've not decided yet wheter it's going to be a bikepacking or backpacking trip.what is the easiest way to travel between towns in the Caucasus if you haven't got a car? what camera gear did you use on the trip?
awesome vid to watch while nursing a hole in my arm. you guys doing a review vid on the Transition Patrol anytime soon?
How did you get a hole in your arm
Henry Oxburgh stupid crash coming out of woods yesterday. Go figure. You ride this weekend?
+Jim Borghini The Patrol is in the 2016 Bible, which is coming very soon!
+Bike Magazine stoked. you guys are awesome. ride on!
+Jim Borghini No. But I did on Monday.
Nice ! ❤️ my hometown 👌
ქართველი ვარ iam georgian
i wonder, how could you manage to travel from Tusheti to Kazbegi ? Atsunta Pass should have taken you to Khevsureti
Nice vid guys
those views are so amazing..i mean are there any words that can describe them?
@2:33 ouww yeahhh babyyyy!!!
Nice video..pencetus semangat
Inspiring and epic video. Would you happen to have a gear list for this trip?
+Mark Hinde Yes! Check out this: www.bikemag.com/gear/bike-check-joey-schuslers-bikepacking-setup/#6rW60qvZOSKUCfg7.97
Beautiful video and awesome trip. But guys when did you make your trip? I mean on what date had your been in Girevi that wasn't allowed to go to Atsunta pass?
Seems they were there in the first half of June
Nice vid! Bjm don't do copyright strikes?!
Thats epic ! How long was that ride?
Amazing! @bike magazine no bible this year? :-(
Pretty awesome video about a place most people know next to nothing about, let alone have ever considered visiting.
My only quibble about the vid is when they say "self supported" trip, it's a little misleading. This looks like it has a decent support staff when you look at some of the footage of the guys riding bikes that weren't loaded, or some of the aerial shots. Still, no matter how many/few were on this trip, and what their budget was, they rode it the whole way and had a great story to tell.
Hi Phil, our trip was truly unsupported, with the four of us carrying all our gear and equipment from start to finish. For the video clips of us riding without our bike bags, we'd simply set up a base camp where we could stash our gear in the tents and spent an extra day exploring all the singletrack in that general vicinity. And, in terms of budgets, you probably wouldn't be able to believe how little money we've learned how to make these films with! If you think this sounds difficult, wait until you see our forthcoming film, "The Kora," which we'll release in a couple of weeks: We did an even bigger expedition in the Himalaya with only THREE people, carrying everything ourselves from start to finish, and splitting all the filming and photography between two of us. I hope you'll check it out! Also, for the aerial shots, we did those ourselves, too. We carried a drone with us. Cheers for watching!
AMAZING
nice.... i am wondering what maps you used.
this is awesome .. :D
Fantastic
Great !
9:47 bricks shittin' LMAO
wee love this .shit. D ont camp on the ridge. good job drink.good times.
hermosooo
sorry I can know that the tent has the second mtb ? thank you