have been to Turkey did not meet a single Turkish habitant.

Your video production is exceptional

Do you and Chris story-board your videos before shooting?

I love all your videos! Thank you so much.

Considering the fires that are burning in California and other places its good to hear someone with the unique perspective of appreciation for the wildfires that Mother Nature provides. Many are due to human carelessness and sometimes even intentional. But maintaining that perspective and expressing it as you have done in this video is very much appreciated at least for myself. Thank you

Could you share the route please and thank you

Dog horn

I enjoyed it from the first minute to the last. Keep sharing your incredible experiences!

Just wow. Beautiful, intimate, thought provoking, inspirational.

We also like to travel by bicycles, so I'm so glad I discovered your channel 🙂 Unfortunately we can only do it for 2-3 weeks per year. Looking forward to see more of your adventures!

Well, I'm glad I've discovered you. This video just inspired me to look more into bikepacking. I'll start looking for a bike just after I finish watching. And by the way the quality of the video is amazing. You have very good film and edit skills + you two are just so natural in front of the camera. I LOVE IT!

I just discovered you today and I love this episode. 💚 I'll go check the older ones now. New subscriber! 😊

Love seeing your adventures. We are still dreaming about a bike trip on the Cape this summer!

Love the scenery, thank you for sharing. Happy riding.

Face close ups are always fantastic!

Awesome video, i love how you integrated some history of items on your routes while biking. Looking forward to seeing more videos!

Lovely filming I want my next video to be more like this

I smiled so many times watching this, thank you.

We used to own some mountain property that had been burned (the whole mountain) in a wildfire. The first year we lived on the property, we had three raging wildfires that we could watch. One became the largest in the country. My work was in the evacuate zone but we still had to go to work because of the nature of our work so the cops would move their road block for us as we drove. It was pretty scary that summer. Thankfully, it hasn’t been the same since. Q

Another great one!

Well done. Keep sharing the good vibes!

It was a real treat to watch your Smoke Season video. Especially since in Pennsylvania (where we are) there is snow on the ground, temperatures are in the mid twenties, and wind gusts are approaching 30mph. Your photography and video journaling skills are excellent. Thanks for giving us a vicarious vacation and sharing your adventure.

Just realized that thanks to the KZbin algorithm I’ve completely missed your Alps trip. Even though I’m subscribed. Well at least now I can binge watch the whole trip.

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. Smoke season is real, but not all destinations and routes are impacted equally. Camping on an app and deciding to tour a location based on algorithms is a smart first step for planning. But do your cabin-fever-afflicted, adventure-seeking self a big favor and check local intel on conditions, then get out there and ride! Thank you for showcasing the rugged beauty of our region. While riding a section of the GDMBR last summer I was struck by the beauty of some of the areas affected by fire in the past. It's all part of the wonderful experience. Thank you for all you do! We hope to see you in Mitchell again someday.

Thanks for this video,,,good one...keep inspiring more beginer like me

Keep making bikepacking video and keep share...for beginer like me

Haha, I also forgot my helmet on a weekend trip once!🤣🤣🤣 And that swimming hole was awesome!

Hillary what made you change your handlebar bag?

Thanks for this video. I travel often to the Canadian west coast and have seen the smoke impact. Back in 2018 the smoke was so dense from interior fires you couldn’t see Grouse Mountain from Kitsilano Beach Vancouver. I’m curious with new trees growing where you rode when did fire burn through that area? Btw as a real amateur KZbinr I know the effort it takes to produce videos. Thank you for posting your adventures. Very enjoyable.

Steven Spielberg has nothing on you!

I have question for my future bike camping . - if a trip cost u 2 day to finish , why not make it 4 day . And do my hobbies - read book 15 to 30 min - Watch anime 2 hour - exercise my whole body = 1 hour - eben pagan 30 to 1 hour - I wish keep reading = Encyclopedia Of Taekwondo 15 Volume , and progress to other martial art book = 1 hour -------- Is the problem u need then extra water to shower or needing toilet . --------- Thanks ------ bec I think doing these little think will make the difference , and excite the journey . - It's like playing game and stoping everything else ?

I also bought a bike with the rohloff, i love it, especially with the gates belt drive. I got used to the shifting immediatly, felt natural not to Swift under load as i do with the normal derailleur bike. Couple of downsides to me are 1 you should change oil if submerged and 2 as i do long tours 5000km is bit too often to change oils, i would prefer pinions 10 000km more.

Loved this one like all your other vids I've watched today. My wife and I will be cycling out of Milan in late March this year, so it'll still be pretty cold and we won't be able to ride up into the big mountains, but we're hopeful we can ride NEAR enough to them to satisfy my "mountain fix". (I'm that weird Yank that moved from Denver to Perth W. Oz to be with my now-wife). We're thinking we might try a "farm stay" as well....assuming any of them are open for guests that far into the off-season.

Binge watching your entire Sardinia series instead of doing chores....life is short, so enjoy, right? As to the military zone and whether to proceed or turn around, I say you NEVER turn around if there's a chance that you COULD get through! There's very little chance you'd be jailed, backtracking up a ROUGH and uphill road is the worst, and you get to interact with locals (that MIGHT jail you, but I digress...) You totally did the right thing, and it paid off.

Public Lands. A-Fricken-Men.

I found your channel a few weeks ago. You guys are great. You can tell you put a lot of work into these videos. Trying to talk my wife into some bike touring adventures…

Excellent video. Great content and thoughtful perspective on the area. Thanks for including the history as well.

Lovely video! Very upbeat and positive, very INFORMATIVE, and excellent film-making all 'round. Thanks for making the effort, and giving us "mere mortals" the inspiration to get out there and ride our bikes.

Little opportunities for wild camping in the Northeast. Our Fifth Season in Vermont is "Mud". A real cycling challenge.

Love your videos!

My favorite parts: "I don't know, man. Maybe we can find something better." - Hillary as she rolls up to a perfect flat campsite. "It's all down then back up then down then back up then downhill from here." - Chris :)

Very nice. We love coming out west to bike pack. It is getting hard to avoid heat and smoke. We came earlier last year trying to avoid it and ended up with black flies and mosquitoes.

another amazing trip. beautiful vistas.

Best wishes for 2025!

Hi..it is a shame the forests along the west coast of America from Southern California to Alaska are being destroyed by fires and White Beetles, what will it look like in years to come, is it climate change?.. here in Australia the wild fires in 2020 burnt the whole of the East Coast, but unlike the Pines you have the Gums Trees here mostly recover from fires, we do have Mountain Ash trees at higher altitudes that don’t survive and now the mountains have white dead trunks through them, however the new grow below will eventually renew the forests…..really enjoy your videos, you need to come to Australia Bikepacking you would love it.

Great vid!

Great video and thanks for the information about the fires and impact etc it was really interesting! I was under the misconception that the increase in fires would be all about global warming! Thankfully, it's not something we have to think about in the uk!

This video was great and I’m glad I found your channel. As a first time viewer, it appears that both your bike saddles may be too high. If you watch the video back, at the bottom of the pedal stroke, both of your toes point towards the ground. Also both of your hips rock side to side as you pedal. These are usual signs that your saddles are too high. Since you spend so much time cycling, it might be worth getting a bike fit and see if a professional can offer some advice. Depending on your height, you might also benefit from shorter cranks, if you don’t already have them. Just a passing observation. Keep up the great work.

I was working the fires just north of you guys this summer. The smokey air certainly didn't make me want to be riding a bike! But that looked fun, i'm still jealous ;D