Biking The Italian Alps! | Bikepacking Across Europe Ep.11

[@NoCarNancy]

I plan breakfast in my head before bed..no joke 😅

[@PursuingMountains]

It’s the best meal of the day!

[@m__r1100]

I'm so team eat early.... Robens tent is a great choice - I use a Robens Arch 2 and it's been battered around Scottish mountains, bike tours and river banks. I'll buy another when it finally dies. 👌

[@PursuingMountains]

Oh wow. That’s great you’ve had a good experience with it! We didn’t know European brands so struggled to know which one to get.

[@veritas7]

"So you shouldn't give me the rest of the cake?" Best line in the series so far. 😂 Really enjoying it, thanks for taking the time to share your adventures!

[@PursuingMountains]

😂 Alex always is a butt head 🙄 Glad you’re enjoying the series! 🙌🏼

[@leapintothewild]

Ahhh, the sound when you bit that pizza crust… 😋 Yep, I can barely get through a bathroom visit and wash my face before needing to eat in the morning! Otherwise weak and nauseas. It’s not Italy by any means 😆 but I live in Watauga Lake on Butler Tennessee, and the original town was flooded in the late 40s. It’s called ‘the town that wouldn’t drown’! My neighbors are 4-5th generation locals who share interesting stories about that time. When we bought our house, there were piles of old bricks all over the place that I collected to edge flower beds, and found out that they were salvaged from the elementary school that is now somewhere below the water!

[@PursuingMountains]

Wow that is so cool! Had no idea there were other sunken towns. I bet it would be epic to scuba dive them!

[@Ucanbikexc]

Wifey and I get up early, first light and ride for a couple of hours and stop and eat breakfast. We always have 3-7 days of meals with us and around 10 pound bag of trail mix(LOL). When we stop we will dry the tent if soaking wet and switched to a 3 man tent last year as I am not so flexible anymore. We will only ride till 2-3pm at the latest with 4-6 hours riding as good enough. I prefer to be done as soon as the campers who are leaving the park are gone and so we have first choice of tenting spots. As old seniors we stay in western Canada bikepacking riding fatbikes mostly and stop and talk with whoever. We stop and take lots of photos and smell the roses too. Have fun, keep trucking.

[@PursuingMountains]

We’ve done it that way a few times, but I (Alex) got so hungry on this trip that I had to eat right away. Now that we’re not on tour I usually wait an hour or 2 before eating.

[@kevinw1129]

Another great video Liz & Alex. Really well edited. Eating your way down through Europe. I’d have done the same. Love Italian food! 👍👍

[@PursuingMountains]

Thank you! So good 😋

[@elham2393]

woooo!!! firsttt :)) excited to watch hehe

[@PursuingMountains]

Awesome! 🙌🏼

[@everest1sierra2]

It's so beautiful!!!!! And such great biking infrastructure. Thank you for sharing your adventure!

[@PursuingMountains]

Thank you! Yes, the biking infrastructure was amazing there 🙌🏼 Western Europe in general had such amazing infrastructure! Wish we had more of that in the USA.

[@SonnyDarvish]

9:40 good life experience there. if the tent is gone, it might cost 10x its price for next days 😬 that probably affects my route to prioritize buying a replacement tent.

[@elham2393]

i always need a little bit of time after i wake up to eat breakfast, in fact im watching you're guys' video as i wait haha. i've tried to eat early but it just ruins my appetite for the whole day lol

[@PursuingMountains]

Nice! Glad I’m not the only one 🙃

[@JamesDowningChapters]

Loving the series!

[@PursuingMountains]

Yah! So glad :)

[@Evanpsk]

just found your channel. love the video the scenery is crazy!

[@PursuingMountains]

That is awesome! Thank you ☺️ Glad you found our channel!

[@Scor-ah]

Europe does not have glyphosate's sprayed on their wheat, that is why gluten doesn't bother you Liz. I always buy Italian pasta in the US for that reason.

[@PursuingMountains]

I should try that too! I was so surprised that I handled it so much better there. The produce also tasted so much better we noticed…

[@cairebrittobarletta]

Awesome video! Cheers from Brasil

[@PursuingMountains]

Muito obrigado cara!

[@NoCarNancy]

So beautiful 😍

[@kayo7082]

I just discovered your channel and your vids are just awesome. It makes me feel great that you experienced so many great moments while cycling through my country (Germany, Schwarzwald aka Black forrest and the Bodensee area). Overall I‘m thankfull to live in Europe. It’s such a beautiful continent. I was just wondering where you are from in the US. Once you said northeast, when I‘m correct. Oregon or Washington?

[@PursuingMountains]

Hi! Welcome to our channel 👋 glad you found us ☺️ We are both from Washington state. We spent most of our adult like in the Seattle area :)

[@ah3312]

hey, great videos. Are you recording the route you're taking? thanks

[@PursuingMountains]

Thanks! I recorded everything on my Garmin watch, so it’s in Garmin as well as Strava. We do have a website, and I’ll probably post the whole rout there at some point. I’ll have to put that on my to do list. If there is a particular section you’re looking for, I could send it over to you.

[@Scor-ah]

I need breakfast when I get up or I get a case of the crankys while my husband likes to wait hours before eating.

[@PursuingMountains]

That was like me this entire trip, I had to eat constantly or I would get really cranky 😆 -Alex

[@Scor-ah]

In the study of Ayurveda that is considered a Pitta Constitution, meaning you have a hot metabolism and burn your calories up fast. Liz has a Kapha Constitution and therefore burns slower and holds onto her calories...lol fun fact. Also Pitta people are more quick to anger than the laid back Kapha people.@@PursuingMountains

[@bvdv47]

When at home: team wake up first When cycling: team immediately get in in ma mouth nomnomnom

[@PursuingMountains]

💯

[@gustyattaway6419]

COFFEE FIRST,then a wee wee.

[@PursuingMountains]

😂 🙌🏼

[@Bikepacking]

You have the gpx file of the route. Cheers

[@PursuingMountains]

We haven’t compiled it yet. But we will post something on our website soon!

[@GStraveller-nr3eo]

I hope you ate canederli in Bolzano. Pizza wise I'm sorry to disappoint you but for the real pizza you have to go to Naples or anywhere in Campania region down south next time because fo what I saw those pizza ware not even close to real pizza

[@vincentb893]

I just don’t understand E-bikes,I’ve heard the so called “advantages” but still makes no sense to me. What’s the point?

[@PursuingMountains]

We’ve ridden those Lime bikes before in big cities and they’re pretty fun, but for touring we’ll stick to regular bikes