3 days bikepacking my local backwoods in autumn
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- Bikepacking my local backwoods in Norway with my pal Sverre in autumn, pondering about local adventures, camp fires and calm while we enjoy one of the last bikepacking trips of the season.
How well do you really know your own backyard? If you look at the map, how many white spots have you yet to discover? How many of the lakes or rivers have you swum in, paddled on or fished in? How many of the hill tops have you climbed? How many of the species living there have you actually seen? How close to your home have you had an overnighter and still felt that you were on an adventure?
Music from Artlist:
Jamie Rutherford - For Old Times
Family Kush - 18 Kilograms
Jamie Rutherford - Solstice
nice and peaceful!
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It always brightens my day when i see one of your videos posted!
So happy to hear that , thanks! 😊🙏🏻
Stunning vid thanks for posting 😊
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Another nice story and video, love it
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Beautiful place
Lucky to have it in my backyard 😊
I'm always happy to see one of your videos pop up on my subscription list. This one, as usual, was excellent and I was especially taken by your perspective on finding the beauty in one's own backyard. As you were talking I was thinking about all of the special places that surround me, and all of the spots I've yet to explore. Thank you once again for taking me along with you and reaffirming the joy to be discovered in one's own "backyard".
That’s great to hear, hope you get to find some nice hidden gems in your backyard! 😄
Brilliant 👍👍👍👍
Thanks! 😊🙏
Thanks a lot. So relaxing in nature and inspiring this is. I plan now a trip looking for an undiscovered 😊spot for overnext weekend with my bike…
Wow, that’s wonderful to hear, hope you have a great trip! 😄👍
Thank you.
Glad you liked it! 😊
It's great to see you out again 🚵♂️👍
Thanks, Tony, glad to hear you liked it! 😄🙏🏻
@@BackwoodsBikepacking all of your videos have been great, like documentised story telling 🙂👍
Thanks, really appreciated 😊🙏 I work as a writer, so I guess it’s kind of natural to use that approach for storytelling combined with all the random clips 😄 This was shot on the side during a photo reportage 😊
I hope your back with more videos, love them ;)
Thanks, glad to hear you like them 😊🙏🏻I have a few in the pipeline, just need to finish writing a book first 😄
good stuff, backwoods 🌻
Thanks! 🙏😊
Great filming
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Looks like great close to home adventure! Thanks for taking us along from Idaho :)
Thanks! Love the fact that the video has been seen on the other side of the Atlantic just a few minutes after I published it here in Norway 😊
Another great and inspiring video. What a treat to have a long breakfast while watching this. I love the photojournalistic style. You inspire me to ride roads less travelled here in beautiful Jæren. Having travelled extensively for work this year, including a total of 8 weeks in USA, has made me realize how incredibly priviliged I am to be able to call Norway home. I am on the verge of tears every time anonymous rocks begin to turn familiar on the return flight from one of Europe's many international flight hubs. Once I step off of the plane and onto the tarmac, I am overwhelmed by the freshness of the air.
I am an eager amateur entomologist and can at times be drawn to exotics and bored by the familiar, but you're quite right - how many local species have I actually seen? Last year, I saw both a slow worm and european adder for the first time in my life, though they are fairly common here. Both times riding my bike. I can't even remember the last time I saw a water strider. All those wonderful spiders I've yet to see with my own two eyes.
Thank you for another quaint yet thought-provoking video. All the best.
Thanks for your wonderful comment! As a hobby entomologist, I guess you have a whole miniature world to discover right at your door step 😊
So inspireing, beutifully put together, thankyou for all the time and effort you put into making this film.
Thanks for the kind words, glad to hear you enjoyed the movie! 😊🙏
Your Videos and content are absolutely amazing . We appreciate you sharing you beautiful country and " back yard" thanks again for sharing can't wait for more ... Ken
Thanks for the kind words, Ken! 😊🙏🏻
Beautiful camera work! It's weird how different each culture regulates its "wilderness" so differently. In Nova Scotia they're allowed to drive quads on trails in "wilderness areas", but not 4wd's (weird because quads are much louder and disturb and erode everything), and in your part of the world you're not even allowed to pedal a bike through them? I must say the latter makes more sense although it seems a little extreme.
Thanks, glad you liked it! 😊🙏🏻 I actually wrote a bit about it in the narration, but didn’t include it in the video: “Part of me would sure have loved to cycle there, but on the other hand, I do love the quiet in these places when I hike, so all in all, I was ok with not being allowed to bring my bike there. Still, it felt a bit odd circumnavigating all that precious wild forest, Instead, we had to ride through heavily managed forests except for a small section of old growth forest where we were allowed to cross though the reserve.” The big paradox is that you are allowed to hunt in almost all of the nature reserves in Norway, but cycling is not because it supposedly is harmful to the environment there. As a biologist, I find that argument utterly ridiculous, but I’m ok with not riding there to keep the areas quiet. Quiet is also an endangered species these days 😄
Cheers from Canada. Seen moose, bear, lynx, fisher, etc.
Swam in lakes, fished them, canoed and camped, often in Temagami wilderness.
Riding again after hip replacement 2 months ago, drooling to get out bikepacking again.
Hoping for the ice to freeze without snowing on it. That's the best riding out on the ice!
Now that’s sounds like a life! 😄👍 Riding on snow free ice sounds like great fun with the right tires 😄
@@BackwoodsBikepacking Maybe I lied, when you can ride on the frozen snow crust is the best. We have bedrock here too which makes fantastic smooth terrain when covered with snow. 👍
Son crust is great fun. As I write this, the weather forecast says we might be in for half a meter of snow the next few days. Winter came early this year 😄
Love those narrated videos, good music choice too!
What are those long pants you using, or do you have a recommandation?
Thanks and greetings from Central Germany!😊
Thanks for the kind words, happy to hear you enjoyed the video! 😊🙏🏻 The pants I’m showed wearing at the end of the video is a pair of Haglöfs rain pants that I put on just to keep warm in the morning. I try not to ride in them unless it’s raining as the two-layer Gore-Tex construction is rather fragile. I’m not sure what pants Sverre is wearing. I’m generally struggling with bikepacking pants. Trying to find a pair of simple pants in a 65/35 polyester/cotton blend these days is difficult. Unfortunately, the Fjällräven pants I have tested in that material doesn’t stand up well to cycling (they wear out in the bum area). Cheers!
@@BackwoodsBikepacking Yeah its a struggle, right? You may wanna let us know in case you found something thats working well for cycling?
Enjoy your autumn!🍂
Chris ✌️
Thanks, you too! 😊
What camera did you use and editing gear
I shot this with the Fujifilm XT3 and the XC15-45. The clips were edited in Lumafusion on an iPad. I switched from Final Cut Pro last year. Not because there was anything wrong with FCP, but I enjoy the simplicity and workflow on the iPad better.
@@BackwoodsBikepacking yeah i switched from MacBook Air and Final Cut Pro to iPad Pro lumafusion editing throu external hard drive love it much more and it faster using lumafusion
That’s cool to hear! I’ve been trying to downscale and just using the bare minimum, it’s kind of liberating 😄
Typically I have a great deal of respect for the way Scandinavian or Nordic countries govern, but protecting a forest so much that you cannot cycle through it is something California or Michigan would do.
I know it might seem strict, but you are usually allowed to cycle in forest reserves and national parks as long as it is along gravel roads or the odd tractor road. One has to check before riding, Riding on trails is not allowed in some (most?) forest reserves, but in some of the newer ones, you are. I’m a bit divided, I love to ride in the forest, but I also love the quiet 😄