142 Miles From Monday - Bikepacking the Kokopelli Trail

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  • čas přidán 25. 05. 2016
  • Stepping away from the 9-5 lifestyle, discover the benefits of scaring yourself, and connect with nature to find meaning in everyday life. Three mountain bikers ride the legendary Kokopelli Trail in the high mountain desert. - AlexWitkowicz.com
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Komentáře • 84

  • @unisulov4803
    @unisulov4803 Před 6 lety +3

    Who cares about the support vehicles, that is not the main point enjoy the video and let it gooo!!! Thank you guys for describing how I feel sometimes and that is exactly the same reason I love riding and getting away to discover new frontiers!!

    • @unisulov4803
      @unisulov4803 Před 6 lety

      Now i see the video and yes it is not bikepacking like that with the support vehicle jajaja I AGREE

  • @graveltraveldirt
    @graveltraveldirt Před 7 lety +5

    This is definitely a bucket list trail. Thanks for sharing the story

  • @tomadams7348
    @tomadams7348 Před 8 lety +11

    This is amazing im 15 and live in England and that is the exact mindset i have so i dont really like the people around me i just wanna get out and come to places like these...

  • @irishman3375
    @irishman3375 Před 2 lety +1

    Doing this ride in May outta CO, can't wait.

  • @Wasatchmodelworks
    @Wasatchmodelworks Před 7 lety +87

    If you have a support vehicle it's not bike packing

    • @ericpmoss
      @ericpmoss Před 5 lety +1

      Yup. It's glamping, which is a ton of fun, but this is real bikepacking: czcams.com/video/LH7s_HPVNXg/video.html and this: czcams.com/video/P88L0mySkpo/video.html

  • @gregfaulkner1457
    @gregfaulkner1457 Před 2 lety +1

    deep revolutions these dudes have but I’m just here looking at the route.

  • @knordberg
    @knordberg Před 8 lety +3

    Very cool video. I completely agree with adventure clearing your mind. Great bonding experience with friends too.

  • @davehenderson5585
    @davehenderson5585 Před 7 lety +6

    The mantras about being in the moment, controlling what you are able to control, and living for happiness are beautiful ideas. Thanks for the reminder. Peace!

  • @TwoWanderYonder
    @TwoWanderYonder Před 6 lety +1

    Great video on a mindset more people should take. We have added it to our Favorite Bikepacking Video playlist! 👍

  • @krischarlton7637
    @krischarlton7637 Před 7 lety +116

    bikepacking....with support vehicles, hmmmmm.

    • @Nate_K111
      @Nate_K111 Před 7 lety +28

      Kris Charlton yeah, isn't that just a bike ride?

    • @littlebull8881
      @littlebull8881 Před 7 lety +7

      Kris Charlton ummm yea definitely 2nd that

    • @mads205
      @mads205 Před 6 lety +2

      yeah that is pretty weak

    • @benjamingoogins1267
      @benjamingoogins1267 Před 5 lety +4

      Sounds perfect to me. No fun riding around with a bunch of junk on bike.

    • @tubenachos
      @tubenachos Před 3 lety +1

      🤣🤣 busted?

  • @aurorahiraeth5896
    @aurorahiraeth5896 Před 7 lety +11

    Support vehicle? I've been doing this all wrong.

  • @jamesmakar2544
    @jamesmakar2544 Před 4 lety +2

    Thanks for the vid......Im going on 60 and planning to do this ride on my BMX bike. Want something exciting? There is a trail that starts at Silverton Casino in Vegas and goes to Death Valley (125 miles/stop at Beatty,Nevada Hotel/Casino), then you go on another trail around Death Valley (125 miles)and stay at Death Valley hotel and a different trail to return to the Silverton (125 miles). Its weird because you only cross pavement only a handful of times and its usually some gas station in the middle of nowhere. The cool part is the stops are all at hotels/casinos or just regular hotels. Great chance to recover in the hot tub, feast on a buffet and sleep in a bed. Its a real challenge because get this...some of the old timers actually do the entire ride with a roll chart! Of course some of these guys have done it so many times they dont even need it. 375 miles, mountains, sand, rocks, beathtaking scenery, temps that can reach over 115, creatures from Gila monsters to mountain goats and everything in between.....its pretty much heaven.

  • @dustfart466
    @dustfart466 Před 6 lety +1

    I can’t wait for summer😢. I plan on doing some serious Bikepacking. So excited. This video only hypes up my excitement. Well done boys, well done👍👍

  • @StarEssences
    @StarEssences Před 6 lety +7

    My new found interest; bicycle touring; motive; to get back and reconnect with God; the inner cities don't offer that; plants, animals, dirt, mountains, cliffs, rocks, etc are not manmade, they are created by God. Bicycle touring is a spiritual retreat for myself too. God does not sustain vanities, but the human soul and teach and guide it to be good and wise in life.

  • @satajet100
    @satajet100 Před 5 lety +1

    love it

  • @neal609
    @neal609 Před 7 lety +2

    Damn this is a great video!

  • @GravelFilmsDivision
    @GravelFilmsDivision Před 4 lety +1

    Dope.

  • @sardogoverland3957
    @sardogoverland3957 Před 8 lety

    Great video and mindset. I donated some blood to the slickrock in Moab back in 2001... Making plans for a return trip because of your video! Thanks for sharing and hope the Bikepacking bag business takes off for you.

  • @jag1870
    @jag1870 Před 7 lety +2

    great vid gentlemen!

  • @coyoteserranoband
    @coyoteserranoband Před 5 lety

    I'm inspired . Just finished bikepacking from Maricopa to the GrandCanyon. I felt like a child again.

  • @Bikepacking
    @Bikepacking Před 7 lety +1

    awesome

  • @yershgersh628
    @yershgersh628 Před 4 lety +2

    This is my favorite trail in the world. We had a helicopter fly in food and water because we had a scheduled meet up with our food truck but never showed up.

  • @TitusLivy777
    @TitusLivy777 Před 8 lety +2

    Outdoor Life...fer shur!!!

  • @Kerobinson15
    @Kerobinson15 Před 7 lety +1

    rad video

  • @bikerookieGO
    @bikerookieGO Před 8 lety +4

    If everything goes smooth, there is much less interesting stuff to talk about later ;)

  • @TheTrakker
    @TheTrakker Před 4 lety +1

    I enjoyed the video. But can't really consider this bikepacking.
    Still fun though.

  • @kris.monroe
    @kris.monroe Před 4 lety

    Crow Peak Brewing hat! In my hometown, Spearfish SD.

  • @panzerthecat
    @panzerthecat Před 8 lety +2

    So much wisdom here!

  • @Yoyomanmanholla
    @Yoyomanmanholla Před 7 lety +30

    Oh yeah, it's all abt being out there and not crave the latest material thing... except for $4k bikes...

    • @ericerickson6633
      @ericerickson6633 Před 7 lety +10

      You have a support vehicle guys… It's not that much of an adventure. Do it solo!

    • @chris_noswe
      @chris_noswe Před 6 lety +2

      Shut up hippie.

    • @Martinmr07
      @Martinmr07 Před 5 lety +1

      I know right. My bike is a starter and It was $800 Diamondback.... people were calling me crazy, but I have no ragrets lol. I will later get a 2.5k bike lol. Maybe this is why I'm still single.

  • @caducucu
    @caducucu Před 6 lety +8

    support vehicle? seems like they are speaking out of both sides. Is this bikepacking? seems like a bit of bullshit to me. These guys want to find adventure but get all freaked out because the "support vehicle did not show up.

  • @annetttt
    @annetttt Před 6 lety

    Support vehicle!!!

  • @carlobarrios3158
    @carlobarrios3158 Před 3 lety +2

    so many haters on here lol jeez appreciate the video and move along.

  • @bmp1300
    @bmp1300 Před 8 lety

    Kulshan brewery FTW!

  • @friarrodneyburnap4336
    @friarrodneyburnap4336 Před 7 lety +1

    Can you make a 20L seat bag?

  • @peterbrownley9892
    @peterbrownley9892 Před 4 lety +1

    Didnt know keemstar cycled

  • @knordberg
    @knordberg Před 7 lety +1

    I love to "be" out there. No Strava for me.

    • @1975lap
      @1975lap Před 6 lety

      How does recording your ride on Strava make it more virtuous than people that do?

  • @seadragonadventures
    @seadragonadventures Před 8 lety

    3:13 - 4Runner rock. I have the exact same truck.

  • @northwind9657
    @northwind9657 Před 7 lety +1

    The things you're speaking of is transcendentalism. Ralph Waldo Emerson, in the 1830s spoke some of the same; leave your chamber, walk through the mean streets of the city and walk to the gate of the forest, open the gate and walk in.

  • @Martinmr07
    @Martinmr07 Před 5 lety

    I wanna go back and ride, but I'm recovering from a knee injury 😭

  • @markjacobs6294
    @markjacobs6294 Před 5 lety +2

    I want to be different so I grew a beard just like everyone else. I don't want money yet have the most expensive gear on the market and a support vehicle. These videos are proof of why us old geezers (55) think there are no real men left out there...

  • @jimbailey9915
    @jimbailey9915 Před 4 měsíci

    "Ride a little slower"!

  • @nateross14
    @nateross14 Před 8 lety +4

    The guy at the end said he wanted to savor the moment and ride slower.....why ride a skinny mtb then? A fat bike would have been a lot funner

  • @mray8519
    @mray8519 Před 3 měsíci

    There are people THAT DO THE KOKOPELLI TRAIL IN ONE DAY. REBECCA RUSCH DID IT IN 13 ½ HOURS. Just a bit of perspective.

  • @scotticus80
    @scotticus80 Před 7 lety +16

    This isn't bikepacking.

  • @CappaDriver
    @CappaDriver Před 7 lety +31

    A few dudes riding really expensive rigs talking about the simplicities of life, stressing out over the lack of a support vehicle in the great outdoors. Hah... why are these "grown men" so soft???

  • @stevelampley2591
    @stevelampley2591 Před 6 lety +3

    Support vehicle? LOL!!

  • @backtrak49
    @backtrak49 Před 8 lety

    what u call is just discomfort prepare for your trail. youare not the first tourists

  • @FINDYOURXFIT
    @FINDYOURXFIT Před 6 lety +3

    Without there support vehicle all they had was a camera crew and 3 grown men all freaked out. Soft pampered men.

  • @KIngK0Ns3rvAtIOn9
    @KIngK0Ns3rvAtIOn9 Před 6 lety

    Oh man how! On has wanted always for this with to do it. To has for do this to the United Stateses? Can on for this when you are living with Hungry to it. Has anyone with this one for being to Europe? As for like this one on. Thanks to you please when to tell me with Europe do this! Nice days!

    • @denverbri
      @denverbri Před 6 lety

      google bikerpelli. hard to do this ride on your own.

  • @michaelgrimes5588
    @michaelgrimes5588 Před 6 lety +7

    support vehicle? lame.

  • @networkbike543
    @networkbike543 Před 5 lety

    Why didn't they have air cover. Also they need to get over themselves.

  • @ajscyclery1952
    @ajscyclery1952 Před 7 lety +2

    SUPPORT vehicle? LOL

  • @billwhittenberger
    @billwhittenberger Před 5 lety

    scaring yourself?? You had support vehicles! Being scared to share a sleeping bag is not a real fear! People have to do the 9-5 to afford all that expensive bikepacking gear!

  • @jeremyharding8904
    @jeremyharding8904 Před 3 lety

    I guess I don’t need to tell you this isn’t bike-packing because everyone in the world already did. I’ve done that ride self supported and I don’t think these guys have what it takes.

  • @Pww642
    @Pww642 Před 8 lety +2

    Great vid, but I kind of with this were more servicey and went step by step through how to do the ride unsupported. And maybe next time not just three white dudes? Women like to ride bikes too.

  • @MyEarthEcoNut
    @MyEarthEcoNut Před 6 lety

    Nice video, but you take 5 minutes to get to the Kokopelli Trail which is the subject of your title. This is not a video about the Kokopelli Trail, should just call it "142 Miles From Monday, A Mountain Bikers Guide to Beards." Great content and editing otherwise! B+

  • @davidferguson9109
    @davidferguson9109 Před 5 lety

    So if I have this straight..you do NOT carry your food, sleep system, or water?!??
    Do you understand the concept of bikepacking? You’re simply doing supported mountain bike rides

  • @alonknaan4536
    @alonknaan4536 Před 4 lety +1

    Good video, but would have been nice to see more actual riding, and less talking

  • @drummerforpeace
    @drummerforpeace Před 4 lety +2

    Lol at these guys talking about being out there alone when only the camera crew shows up at camp and not the sag wagon... What is this dude doing making bikepacking gear when he's not even bikepacking? This is weak stuff.

  • @bubacat1108
    @bubacat1108 Před 5 lety +1

    this was a total waste of time Click bait nothing Certainly not bikepacking you forgot the water bed LOL

  • @PhilSnider
    @PhilSnider Před 5 lety +1

    Weak!

  • @kevinsailors8707
    @kevinsailors8707 Před 4 lety

    this shit isnt bikepacking. its car camping where you ride a bike

  • @zheuscher
    @zheuscher Před 5 lety

    FYI A bunch of Smelly Hippie Girly talk for the first 5 minutes. You have been warned.

  • @ckunstadt
    @ckunstadt Před 4 lety

    this is preachy AF

  • @markstevens4264
    @markstevens4264 Před 5 lety

    If these guys had any dignity left (assuming they had any to start with), they'd delete this embarrassing video ASAP. "Scaring yourself...and finding the meaning in everyday life." Are they *&^%$# serious?