Bikepacking The BC Trail Solo | 11 days | 1000km
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ก.ค. 2024
- Starting from Coquitlam, I bikpacked across some of British Columbia's most stunning places and sketchiest trails, including Skagit, the KVR, and Gray Creek Pass before ending in Cranbrook. I encountered many difficulties such as torrential rainstorms and popped inner tubes but I was able to persevere and come out victorious.
My lowest point came on the fourth day. Every revolution of my bike pedals was equivalent to someone stabbing me in the knees with a red hot knife. I had never felt such incredible pain before and yet I forced myself onto this pain minute after minute, hour after hour. I managed to go 60km in 7 hours before it started to pour rain. In a stroke of (what I believed to be) genius, I put my tarp overhead and continued biking instead of waiting it out in the rain. However, this plan completely backfired as the tarp got stuck in the brakes and I came to a screeching halt. Now I was tired, cold, wet, hungry and miserable. I was ready to quit. But my faith in humanity was restored. A kind lady took me into her home and she gave me food, drinks, a hot bath, a place to stay for the night and games to entertain. I will never forget her kindness.
0:00 Intro
1:00 Day 1 Coquitlam to Chilliwack lake
3:15 Day 2 Chilliwack Lake to Skagit
7:56 Day 3 Skagit to Princeton
12:17 Day 4 Princeton to Osprey Lakes
14:27 Day 5 Osprey Lakes to Pentiction
15:53 Day 6 Pentiction to Chute Lake
20:19 Day 7 Chute Lake to Midway
21:47 Day 8 Midway to Christina Lakes
24:00 Day 9 Christina Lakes to Shoreacres
27:11 Day 10 Shoreacres to Gray Creek Pass
29:16 Day 11 Gray Creek Pass to Cranbrook
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This is a true adventure. I find myself both admiring your courage and resilience and also lamenting some of your choices. I can't imagine taking this on without a waterproof shelter. Great footage and nicely edited - a compelling watch. Thanks for chronicling both the highs and the lows and sharing it with us.
Im glad you enjoyed it!
I love how real this is. You don't have fancy gear, don't act like you know what you're doing, show your challenges, and just bring us along for a journey through time
Haha I definitely don't know what I'm doing sometimes. Thanks for the feedback, Im glad you enjoyed it
The suffering and the struggle is the best part of the journey. If it was easy what lessons would you learn. This will live with you for your entire life.
In the heat of the moment, it definitely wasn't fun. But in retrospect yes I learned a lot of lessons and was the most memorable 10 days of my life. I will never forget them.
What an adventure. Good on you for sticking to your plans and completing the journey. Enjoyed every minute….beautiful views too!
Haha I cheated here and there but I got to my destination :). It was definitely an eye opening experience. Glad you liked it
That was truly a great video ! Thank you for sharing your bikepacking trip -
You are excellent at filming and you give a good narrative, keep at it, I am sure the best is yet to come
Thank you very much!
Well done ! Loved your video and editing skills and your sense of humour. What a superb trip you just took us on.. Thanks 🙂
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is super well documented and shott! Nice work man! That route is a doozey!
Ah thanks mate. I've seen some of your videos too. They're top notch
@@theunpreparedhikers5572 you're too kind!
I probably just missed you on the trail that week. The guy that gave you the spare tube up above Christina Lake was Damian Parlee, and he absolutely slaughtered the BC Epic this summer. Such a good guy!
Keep up the Bikepacking!
Such an effort to film this journey! You are a natural story teller! Cheers!
Yeah it was annoying setting up the camera and riding past it, then going back to pick it up. But it was worth it. Glad u enjoyed:)
Great vid very entertaining
Thanks!
Good job i thoroughly enjoyed this . I have a few bike pack trips under my belt and can relate to a few of your obsticles .
Thanks mate. Will be going on another bikepacking trip soon
Awesome video and great footage. This past summer, we biked from Vancouver to the On border taking hyw 3 through bc.
Yo that's sick! How long did that take you? I was hoping to do something like that one day, but I feel I need to have someone come with me; almost died of lonliness
@@theunpreparedhikers5572 I can understand how someone would get lonely after a while. Thankfully I usually bike (long trips) with my dad. Front Vancouver to the Ontario border it took us about 3 1/2 weeks less the train ride out to Van from Winnipeg, Mb. We have been posting episodes of this trip on our channel. Cheers!
I rode from Canmore to Vancouver during August. It was also my first bikepacking adventure, and I loved it!
This is an excellent video!
Glad u liked it. How was the wildfires on your trip?
Congratulations, you are very courageous 🤩👍😀
Thanks!
Excellent video
Thanks
No tent or rain gear, one bolt holding your shoe cleat on -I love it. I really enjoyed watching it, nice work.
Haha yeah hence the name Unprepared Hikers. Not on purpose tho, just didn't quite know what I was getting myself into
the tarp died a noble cause... but dang what a documentary! and a character building trip!
ayyy thanks :) which reminds me i gotta get you a tarp
Sick video, nice editing too!
Thanks :))
Great camera work, like the music too!
Thanks mate!
What a journey. Video editing has improved drastically too, as well as the storytelling element of it. Favourite video so far.
Ay I've been working on the storytelling. Glad u enjoyed it
Doing great work, worth the wait. One thing I’d say is that it would be great if at the beginning of each day, you would put “Day X-XXX km-X town” at the bottom or some sort of transition, so it would be easier to mentally map your journey throughout the video
Hm that's a good tip, I'll put it in the timestamp
This is guy is so resilient than Bruce Lee, going unprepared and fully equipped is crazy....
Appreciate the compliment
That campsite just before Nelson was a little loud under the bridge when big trucks go over, i know cause i slept there too. Great vid and hope the missing screw from your shoe cleat didnt hamper your ride. Great effort and camera work.
Haha nice. I was so dead I didn't even notice. The sholeaces on my shoes kept coming undone, that probably frustrated me more than the missing screw
hahahaha when I saw the tire width I knew this was going to be good.
Hahaha I see you have much experience bikepacking. To be fair, when I was googling the trip, they said 36mm was okay
I expected your next journey after watching it.
Good job! At around 11 minutes, I've heard that section is overgrown and just nasty😅
Haha yeah, shouldn't even be marked as a trail on the map. Genuinely felt like I was gonna die
Great video ,but Dude do some research next time and get a bike fit ,tent wet weather gear and some spares .I rode this trail in the BC epic race good to see again!
Yep I will definitely do that next time. I don't know why I didn't do a short trial run (maybe cuz I am unprepared).
@@theunpreparedhikers5572 At least the bike fit, even after hundreds of km your knees shouldn't hurt that much. The gear is secondary imo, you can muddle through with anything but if your body is hurting you won't get very far.
@@jamiewellbourn3609 yeah would've been smart 🤓
Awesome! Bet you’re a lot better at changing tires! 😝
Haha unfortunately yes I am
Congrats, very inspiring! How wide your tires were?
Had 36mm tires; they were not wide enough. Would recommend at least 45, probably even more
Good chance your knee pain was from not having your seat at the proper height. I made that mistake on a bike tour before
Yeah possibly. I should've done more trial runs with that bike, but I got it fixed up like a week before I left and rode it once for about 2 hours lol
And now I see why you were near dead when I found you before Manning 😮
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Brian good to hear from you again! Thanks again for the ride :) Let me know if you're ever in Vancouver, we can meet up or sth
@@theunpreparedhikers5572 for sure! I'm planning on being coastal again soon for some work. Be fun to meet up.
Dude, you went the wrong way and you went uphill. shudda gone from Princeton to Brookmere, Coquihalla Lakes, Iago to Jessica the back way and down the hill. Kudos for your endurance and toughing it out.
I started in Vancouver so I couldn't really go that way (I don't think at least). Not sure where Jessica and Lago are.
@@theunpreparedhikers5572 I am slowly doing 30 km chunks of the Kettle Valley Rail route. Always downhill. Take a tent. See the old wooden circle nameboards on the Coq Highway they refer to CP waypoints.
@@tandemcompound2 Thanks man. I'll keep that in mind if I ever decide to do this again.
I don't know how I ended up on this vid but geez could it get any faker...
What was fake about it?