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Brompton Bikepacking Wild Camp. Hills! But I love hills! and sky, and space, & freedom, wild freedom
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ค. 2023
- In May, I took my Brompton and my little tent and cycled through the Peak District, to go and see my Dad. There were a lot of hills - and quite a lot of inquisitive cows - along the way. I camped wild, close to Axe Edge Moor, high up at the watershed of two great river systems. And it was fantastic.
Hills aren't easy, but I love them. Especially these hills, close to where I grew up. I don't know what it is - something to do with being up high, the sky, and the space, and solitude, and a feeling of wild freedom.
And I hope you enjoy meeting my Dad! We are both being treated for cancer, and we both love being out on the bike.
Hope you like the film!
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Arch Tremors / Just Do / www.epidemicsound.com
Mike Parr / Again and Again / www.epidemicsound.com
Go For Howell / We'll Get There By and By / www.epidemicsound.com
I finally figured out the magic of your adventures. It's your rare ability to feel and convey joy, appreciation, love, and wonder. It's intoxicating ❤
Aw thanks sw8234 what a lovely thing to say. I dont know, I just feel so grateful and glad, that I can still do this. Thank you for watching and for writing!
Fully agree 👍🏻
Brilliant comment.
Hi Susanna .I have enjoyed and been inspired by you to get on a bike. This has resulted in my grandson joining me . Found your channel during lockdown . You are a daughter to be proud of and your love of family shows !! Your father is another inspiration to all us in our senior years . Just to let you know that I have never commented on anyone’s channel before . Seeing you with your father moved me to be brave and express a great thank you sharing your adventures with me 😊
Wonderful Susanna and a lovely treat to see your Dad joining you along the way - 87 and still adventuring! I hope I’m still able and filled with the desire to keep playing with life as your Dad obviously is when I reach his age! You struck gold with your spacious camping views and the pub grub looked worth all those hills to get to 😊 I had earmarked your first track ‘Just Do’ for a future video myself but you beat me to it - love the lyrics! It never occurred to me to dehydrate salmon before, amazing idea! You’re looking so fit and healthy which is fab to see 😍🎉 x
Hello! Aw thank you for the lovely comment Miriam! yes I love those lyrics too! Oh I am looking forward to see what you do with that track too now haha! Ah yes the salmon was a bit of an experiment. I also had never thought of dehydrating fish but my husband gave me a book on dehydrating food for my birthday, and there was a whole section on fish, so I thought I would give it a try. Great! I have had it three times now. Haha. Thank you for writing!! Best wishes!!
@@susannathornton That's so interesting you dehydrate your own food. I have various food intolerances so find it almost impossible to get the ready made dehydrated meals, but never really considered doing it myself. Must look into it.
Another great video. Time spend with aging parents is golden, I'd love to have one more conversation with my mother & father.... Thanks for sharing.
What an charming way to wind down from a stunningly scenic ride, a pub lunch and cycle home with dad. Thanks Susanna! This has been a special treat.
Thanks for watching Brad! glad you enjoyed it
Good to see you looking and doing so well Susanna, you have a powerful life force and she’s looking after you. Loved this film and seeing your dad again - and on his bike - is … magic! Thank you for sharing with us 🤗
Aw thank you pootling along!! Hope you are well! glad you enjoyed our film!! best wishes!
Thanks for the nice video. Your dad is 87 and rides a bike - awesome. That is a real inspiration to everyone, not to mention your fighting spirit. I ride a Brompton and nearly always get off and push when the road goes uphill, no shame in it. Well done you and Dad Thornton. 👍
Thank you for writing Ysgolgerlan! glad you enjoyed our film!
Merci beaucoup pour ton voyage vers la source…ton père …merveilleux
Hi Chantal! thank you for watching again! hope you are well! x
What a wonderful place to wild camp, listen to those Skylarks, thank you for bringing us along.
Hi Susanna, I found your Hk to UK video a couple of weeks ago, an amazing trip. Having worked in China between 81 and today the footage in rural China brought back a lot of memories. I am now working my way through your recent videos and enjoying them immensely. I too have had cancer and found that cycling and hiking helped me recover. You really are inspiring.
This video soundtrack had me intrigued, I was sure the singer was Allison Krauss but saw in the credits it was Noomi Thorentsson, their voices are so similar they could be sisters. Thanks for sharing your rides, they are so enjoyable and so positive.
Thank you for watching and for writing. Wishing you good health and happiness! 🚲🥾😎🌞
Big hug and solidarity to you and your dad xxx
Thank you Floyd! best wishes from Dad and me!
You look in top shape and fitness and your bravery and quest for adventure is truly humbling. Hats off to you ! Brompton owner in Salisbury !
Hello to you in Salisbury! oh you're near where my friend Lynne and I did a ride a couple of years ago, beautiful. Thanks for watching! happy cycling!
You’re a genius, Susanna, to get past all of those cows on morning 2 😮
Haha yeh, I'm scared of animals, lucky that I could avoid them by going through the neighbouring field and squeeze under the fence
Just finished watching, absolutely brilliant! It’s the little things like your determination to get you Brompton over a wall or through a fence that inspire me. Thank you, a lovely video.
Love your videos. I also used to live in HK. And I love riding my bike. I now live in Switzerland. Lots of climbing up the hills and mountains
It's always such a pleasure and a privilege to watch one of your videos. Fabulous wild camp spot. Dining and riding with your Dad at the end brought a few tears to my eyes. 87 yrs old and still riding. Chapeau. Thank you Susanna.
Susanna,
I’m finally catching up with your adventures. And what an adventure it was: Climbing over stone walls to camp (your rehab must include weight training), cycling 50 miles per day, and those hills, yikes (thank you for walking). And the best part was that you did all that to have lunch and visit with your dad. I’m sure he was thrilled.
You have inspired me. I just finished a five day, train, cycle, plane trip with my Brompton on the Katy Trail in Missouri, US.
Love seeing and hearing of your “escapades”.
Peter
P.S. Fifty mile days on the Brompton are tough, no matter where you are.
Hi Peter! oh that sounds fab, your Katy Trail adventure, bravo you! Aw yeh I do do strength training, just basic stuff like press ups and things, which I am rubbish at, but use it or lose it isnt it!! Glad you enjoy the films! Lots more on the way. I am editing a whole bunch of rides I have been doing now, and soon Dad and me are gong off on an adventure together! Exciting! Happy cycling to you too!
I think I remember chatting briefly to you at the top of the Cat and Fiddle/Goyt Valley. An old chap heading the other way on a titanium road bike, pretending to be young. Excellent videos
Axe edge. My part of the world.. nice to see you back.
I love the honesty and rawness of your videos. Many congrats
Hi Jane! thank you for watching!
beautiful ending, thank you, you and your Dad
aw thanks Pat! glad you liked it! thanks for watching our film!
Absolutely love following your travels, inspires me to get my Brompton out!
Lovely photo of you and your father!
Lovely video Susanna,be safe out there!
You really are so inspiring! I'm hoping to manage a trip on my new Brompton when I can ride far enough. I've only had it a few weeks after getting an e-bike last year and thinking a normal bike would improve my fitness. I've already changed the chainring for a 40T which helps with hills on the edge of the Pennines where I live but I'm just so slow to get very far. I'm struggling to see how I'll ever manage. Thank you for continuing to inspire me to keep trying.
Hi Rachael! oh that all sounds great, big thumbs up to you getting to grips with an ebike, and now out there getting ready to tackle a few hills on a Brompton! crikey great. No need to do anything massive... A nice one-night trip - short distances, no stress, plenty of time, long sits and coffee stops, chatting with people, eating nice food - and on day two you're home by teatime, your first adventure done! Thanks for writing! Keep going! Wishing you lots of happiness out on the road! x
Happy weekend ☕,i really enjoyed this lovely weekend debs xx...
I love the back pannier idea! Brilliant.
Yeh it works great actually. Not my idea - I was hunting around for ideas on how to fix the Ortlieb on the rear rack, and saw this idea on the webpage of a guy called Shane. He used bungies as straps, but I think that would be quite wobbly - as he says himself. I use a ratchet strap with a cam buckle, pulled really tight, and it's great
www.shanecycles.com/carrying-luggage-on-a-brompton-folding-bike/
Lovely video and such a nice spot to camp. And your dad riding out to the pub to meet you. What a legend! 🙂
wonderful scenery and meeting your with your lovely dad, a perfect time!
Thanks for another great video. Glad you are looking so well
Another beautiful video Susanna. So relaxing and informative and joyous.. thank you. Nigel, Belfast
Thanks Nigel! glad you liked it! Joyous, such a nice word! thanks for writing!
Thanks for taking us on this journey with you. The scenery was stunning and I love looking at the houses in the villages you pass through. I really enjoyed this adventure 😀
Charming, lovely. I appreciate your showing the maps.😊
Hello! oh glad you like the maps! I love maps. Thank you for writing!
Very inspirational , thank you
Lovely English country side. Come to think of Lovejoy, an English tv-drama back in the day that I used to watch...
Wow.
It brought tears to my eyes. What a wonderful journey. It was fantastic to see your amazing father at the end of your adventure. I'd like to say you are inspirational, but I'd only contemplate that journey with an ebike 🤣 Well done 👏
How lovely. What a journey and a climb. I have walked much of Derbyshire in the past (35-ish years ago) and have such fond memories of my walks. Well done on another wonderful adventure. Lovely dad too🙂.
Lovely made film. Makes me want to travel with a brompton 😊
Thank you so much for sharing this! I have a yearning to ride through the Peak district, maybe one day.., till then I'll enjoy it vicariously through your rides. 🙂🚲
oh I hope you get to ride in the Peak District soon. I feel lucky that I grew up in Stockport within reach of all that. Thanks for watching!
That looks a lovely ride, one for the future I think. I've just fitted a 39t ring at the front of my 6-speed Brompton, so hills are mainly doable now!
oh that sounds good! same as me, reducing all the gears. I love the way the bike feels kind of nippy with the lower gears, and I dont miss the top end at all
Lovely Susanna, You picked the weather well too.
Haha yeh! not a drop of rain on me on that ride! and the skies and clouds were so beautiful
Such an inspiration!
A wonderful video, thank you for sharing your adventures with us. Your dad is fabulous! 87 and still riding! What an inspiration you both are. The inquisitive cows made me laugh, too 😂
Loving the channel so glad you popped up on my feed. Binge watching your back films and have subbed ya. Atb Coops 👍🏻🚴
Reminds me of ilam yha I think I might have stayed there 35 years ago.
Best wishes to you and your dad he must be right proud of you 😊
Yeh it was a huge one, wasnt it. I remember seeing it in those old YHA handbooks, which I used to pore over when I was a girl, dreaming of doing adventures. I never stayed there though. Seems that it is still going strong
Oh and about Dad, haha that is nice of you, but it is me who is proud of him!!!!
I rode in the Peaks District in the last May 2023 with my Brompton, a 9 days journey by Brompton in England... lovely!
oh sounds fantastic, bravo you LamBrompton!
So happy to see you back traveling! You have the most beautiful voice (you would make a wonderful narrator). Thank you for sharing your travels. My husband and I are Brompton risers here in the US and enjoy your videos very much. Safe travels and we’ll wishes.
Thank you for sharing your journeys. I continue to be inspired by your joy. Looking forward to more of your Brompton travels.
A lovely video, inspiring. Thank you 👍
Hi Steve! aw thank you for watching and for the lovely comment
Wonderful, good to see your feeling better, good to see your dad cycling as well 👍👍👍
Thanks David!
Great video. Treasure the moments.
yes, always! thank you for watching Ian
very nike vedio 👍👍👍
You have a lucky father whose daughter has come such a long and tiring distance to see him. Have a nice day
Aw it is the other way round, I am the lucky one. Dad thinks so too actually I think haha
Greetings Susanna! The truth is that I have to mention that I love how you take time to connect with your environment. You enjoy everything, there are three particular shots of the video that I really liked… when you walk with your bike in a meadow full of tiny flowers and you mount your camera on the side of the bike, just beautiful little flowers!, when the cows approach curiously to you to observe you and the meeting with your father and pedal together, that is spectacular!!! I can't forget about the music either. Who sings? …there are moments where I feel lonely…
Good health and thanks for sharing your experiences.
Hello Carmen!! thank you for the lovely comment! glad you liked the film! About that song, it was Go For Howell / We'll Get There By and By, featuring Noomi Thorstensson. Nice isnt it!! 🎶🎵🚲🥰
@@susannathornton yes!! Very nice!! Un fuerte abraso caribeño!!
很高兴又见到Susanna 充满活力的骑车旅行，祝快乐！
thanks for watching Zhang Songqi! glad you enjoyed this one!
Hi Susanna Your thumbnail just come up on my feed and I am glad it did because its a great video. I am sorry to learn you are on chemo treatment but your clearly not letting it stop you doing what you want to. Those hills looked daunting but they were worth it because you found a great place to camp. Your dad looks great for his age and he has clearly passed his cycling genes onto you as well. Best wishes and needless to say you now have one more Sub. Take care.
Aw thanks for the lovely comment, and the sub! Best wishes to you too! x
Thank you for sharing all your adventures. Love, love, love them. Waiting for your next and many more. Lots of blessings n wishing you good health always.
Hi Susan! Thank you for sharing these beautiful landscapes with us, truly a dream trip, congratulations and regards!
Thanks JeronPlas! glad you enjoyed this one!
Thanks once again Suzanna for this stunning ride! I would love to go cycling through these green English pastures. 👏👏👏
Great video as usual your such inspiration. I'm even thinking of buying my first Brompton at 70 give the ebike a rest .😂maybe I'll need the rest going back to a normal bike 😂😂
I am a 72 year old Brompton rider here in New Zealand (We are a rarity here). I have watched many of your videos over the years. I love watching and hearing about your adventures. Your videos show the charm and beauty of the English countryside in your own inimitable understated way. I have a Kiwi daughter, son in law and 2 grandchildren in the UK. One of my ambitions is to purchase a Brompton on our next trip to the UK and do some 'S Thornton' style riding.
So sorry to hear about your cancer - but if you can - keep riding!! - you are an inspiration. Kind Regards and my very best wishes.
Oh that sounds like a lovely idea! Thanks for watching meanwhile! Best wishes!
Nothing wrong with pushing the bike uphill. I do it a lot myself. It gives me an opportunity to view the countryside I'm travelling through with more attention. Your camping spot was gorgeous!
Great video. Many thanks.
Yeh I was looking at flowers and things haha, nice! I also dont mind at all going slowly. I like it haha. We're not racing are we! take it easy (ish)! Thanks for watching!
Nice to see your Dad on the video Susanna, what a lovely ride and beautiful place to camp. There was a feeling of expansiveness in this video:)
Hi Sandy! Aw thanks for the lovely comment! yeh, so nice riding with Dad, though he does nip along, I can't keep up haha
Another wonderful mix of stunningly beautiful landscapes and a gorgeous wild campsite, with a lovely homecoming and meeting your dad.
Hi Linda! I was so lucky with the weather and everything on that trip, yeah, ahhhh!! happy memories! what a nice summer it has been. I feel very lucky. Hope you are well! best wishes!
"Once upon a time, on a Brompton..." The scenery looks like they are from the pages of a fairy tale. The ending is a happily ever after.
Aw what a lovely comment! thank you Angelito!
The wife and I are really enjoying your videos thank you for sharing your journeys with us x
Thanks for writing! Glad you both enjoy the films! best wishes!
Absolutely Joyous 🌅 thank you once again from Australia 🌻🌻🚴🏻♀️🚴🏻♀️
I’m going to do my best to appreciate hills on my bike more after watching this Susanna! Your joy is infectious. Thanks for another gorgeous video …..glad to see you are feeling so well!
Hi Wilma! Thank you for writing! oh that sounds good haha hope you find some nice hills to enjoy! esp getting to the top and having coffee haha! Happy cycling! 🚲😁👍
Another fabulous vlog. Your dad is so amazing - still cycling and looking great on it too. Your videos always convey so much love and positivity. And your determination in dragging your bike and bags over walls and stiles just adds to the sense of adventure. You are so strong - after all your treatment too. Amazing!! As always thank you for sharing with us.
Hi Penny! Aw thank you for the lovely comment! Yes Dad is amazing🥰
To see the world with all its wonders through your eyes is truly amazing. Happy travelling
Aw thank you for writing. What a lovely thing to say
A interesting and inspiring film, much respect and well done. I love the Brompton. All the best, Chris. 🙏👍👍👍
Awwww Dad so handsome.
Thanks for letting us join you on another wonderful journey Suzanna
Thank you very much for sharing another one of your adventures, I look forward to each one of your beautiful videos, I’m so glad you are getting stronger. Cheers
Superb Lady. No other word for it. You sprinkle magic throughout your videos. Great to meet your Dad also. Stay safe. I'm from Stockport also - but that's incidental.
Another lovely film I enjoyed the bit with your dad very special.Thank you.
What a fabulous video. Full of how real life should be! Thank you 😁😁
As thank you Lynn! what a lovely comment x
Another great video Susanna, very enjoyable. You certainly had some challenges especially getting all your gear and bike over that wall! You are an inspiration. That was a lovely ending as well, pub lunch and Dad, marvelous. Good luck. (Al Kennett)
Thank you for another lovely,lovely video.
Lots of country paths in UK. You must be so, so happy to be able to cycle with Dad. He looks strong! Thanks for sharing.
Hi Jason! aw yes, I am so, so happy about being able to ride with Dad. He is quick though! No dawdling! haha. So nice, we both enjoy it so much, being on two wheels out in the open air
@@susannathornton I had a good ride in Korea, 35 days. From Incheon to Busan, 1 Round on Jeju Island, and other paths. Did some wild camping, too.
@@jasonloke2219 Oh sounds fantastic Jason. I just looked at the map and I see you basically rode the whole way across South Korea... how brilliant. Wild camping too. I imagine it was a wonderful thing to do. Sometimes I really regret that I no longer live in Asia... so many things I didnt do. Well I enjoy thinking about it through you! Thanks for writing!
@@susannathornton Yes,, from North to South. Basically you can camp almost anywhere. No one disturbs you. I went through in spring, lots of flowers. Maybe, another I might go cycle the East Coast of Korea, equally popular. lots of good food, too.
@@jasonloke2219 sounds so good!
Words fail me! You are truly an inspiration.
Awesome! Thanks for bringing us along.
As always, very inspiring. Thank you.
Inspiring us all as usual, lovely to watch 😊
A beautiful ride! Astonishingly pleasant countryside ...
Another epic adventure, Susanna. I was anxious when you had to negotiate a wall and barbed wire with your Brompton but, as ever, you succeeded! It’s all been said, but your honest appreciation of Nature and simply sitting watching a sunset reminds all I of us of how to value what is around us. So lovely to see your dad at the end cycling with you.
Thank you so much 🚲
Aw thanks for the lovely comment John
That was beautiful Susanah your a great inspiration to us keep these videos coming .
Just a beautiful video. Thanks for sharing your ride and life with us.
Another magical video Susannah and you look so well 😊 Ilam is a beautiful place and the River Dove spell binding. Thank you so much and lovely seeing your Dad 😊❤
Hi Philip! aw thanks for watching! glad you enjoyed it!
All I can say is BRILLIANT
Another lovely ride and camping experience. Lovely video.
Another spectacular video. Thankyou so much. Your dad is an inspiration at 87. Those views were amazing. Have you thought of fitting a smaller chainring for those hills? Easily done on the Brompton. I have two chainrings a 54t and a 38t. The 38t makes all but the steepest climbs possible. Take care.
Hi Andrew! thanks for watching! yeh already done it actually - I put a 38T on this bike! And still have to get off and walk haha, but I dont mind!!
Just found your lovely channel! What a wonderful adventure! Do be very careful to avoid crossing fields of cows though. Most people don't realise how dangerous and aggressive they can be. Xx
Hi Tinac! Yeah it was a relief to get to the other side of that wall. And I didn't take the public footpath back through the cowfield the next day. I just scrambled through the meadow I was in. I am not knowledgable about cows but I am scared of them as I've read about quite a few terrible incidents when they group together and get aggressive to walkers and so on. Thanks for writing! Hope you enjoy the channel!
Very inspirational! Thanks for posting.
Lovely video Susanna, was in the UK and Goyt Valley a few weeks back. Gorgeous part of the world and well done to portray it so well.
Oh my god! Your dad looks amazing and I’m so glad
Your on the road to recovery and love watching you vlogs! We’ll done you,
Keep going 😅😊
Glad you found the chocolate :-) and those cows had me worried for a while. Another epic trip and what a great find the Dove valley was. After those climbs you thoroughly deserved that pub lunch! Thanks again for another great adventure and sharing with us!
haha yes it was a worrying moment that, when I couldnt find the chocolate! thanks for watching Nic!
Loved The Ending Pic With You And Your Dad,So Special Are The Simple Things In Life.X
Aw thank you Robert!
What stunning scenery, I’m on the west of Cheshire and didn’t realise just how picturesque the area around the Peaks is. Great video once again Susanna