Yep, overpack every time also. For me, I will never be without my tarp and one-man tent. two items that are pretty small to pack but precious to have. 🤟🏼🇺🇸
After watching most of your video library for weeks, I’ve accumulated my camping kit and will be heading out in the morning to the Smokey’s from south Florida for my first ever motocamp trip. Thanks for the inspiration and lessons. I’ve been riding for 40 years but never did anything like this. Thank you Sterling!
When you mentioned bears, I thought to myself this is going to get interesting, the poor guy is going to be awake all night, alls good though and ended well with a lovely spot, nice countryside, that walk was really nice on the other side of the inlet, beautiful, a very laid back place to live, looks like nothing happens in a rush, nice, my kind of place.
You really got lucky with the island weather so far. The local black bears are just as apprehensive with us as we are with them. It’s the grizzlies on the mainland you gotta be more cautious with. Though either variety might spoil your night if you go inviting them around with food or trash.
I've been to Courtenay...camped.....Awesome. I hope in the next episode you make it a bit further north to Campbell River (my favourite Vancouver Island spot). Thanks again.
Wow!, I live in Canada and hope to experience its beautiful places. Thank you Sterling, so peaceful and inspiring your storytelling, you make my soul dreams..
Looking at that coastal view at the end of the video I was imagining setting up a hammock and just laying there right at the water's edge, sipping on a big person beverage and letting the oceans breeze take over my senses. Kudos, brother Sterling ......
Sterling, I find so much useful information in your content. I, too, love to spend many days on the bike out travelling and experiencing. You always get me thinking about what I can change to make my trips more enjoyable, or to pack less, or in some cases, pack more. Thanks for taking the time to make such entertaining and informational content! Cheers!
Living in the rain forests along the west coast of Vancouver Island, I couldn’t help but have a chuckle at the getting rid of the hammock and **rain** tarp. Even, dry pads for a night are basically only found at paid for reserved prepared sites … ahahaha, he’s scared of the čims, oh boy, tourists crack me up.
Beautiful place, thanks Sterling for another fab film, makes me feel happy and contented. 😀Oh well, back to work tomorrow....hundreds of cars and traffic jams😪
Sterling your content is always excellent and makes me what to jump on my GS and take off somewhere ! Could you please feature your riding gear sometime in a future episode ?
Good vid. Minimal is best. If you don't use it you worry with it. Send it back is right. Many times I thought about chucking a bunch of stuff in the ocean. A few weeks out and never used it. So it stays home. After 50 some years of riding I can do without a lot. I'm not sure I'll even fool with photos and vids anymore. At almost 68 there is nothing to prove but maybe some to share.with my less fortunate friends. I don't need it. I'll have to check Bamfield out. That's the kind of place I like the most. Safe travels where ever you are.
As always, great video. I learn a lot from your content. I am new to getting into motorcycle camping, and you've helped me decide what to pack, buy, and how to travel. Keep up the great work.
Regarding flow: Sometimes we don't camp, but take B&Bs. Especially when it's getting cold and damp, like at the upcoming tour end of October in the Bohemian forest/Czechia. It's so much faster in the morning when you don't have to wrap up your wet tent. I really like your video style. Gotta a lot to see after being away for a while in Romania (Transalp 600) and Wales (Beta Alp 200). Cheers from Nürnberg/Germany, Günter
Sterling, one of your fellow world travelers and history makers is here in VA. Saturday. Elspeth Beard, the first lady to travel the globe on a BMW. Her story is on CZcams
I don’t know if it’s because you have been travelling in Canada for a bit, but I did notice that have adopted our use of “eh” in yourexpressions. Love that you documented your journey. Pitter patter, let’s get at er.
Great commentary Sterling. Loved your exploration of that little town too. I live near Van island but have yet to explore those roads. Better get after it. : ). Nice work!!
Glad you're enjoying Van.Island. Pretty much all of those gravel roads you've been travelling on were built to harvest the timber in the area. I hauled logs with huge off highway trucks when I was a (much) younger fella on the island. I still get a start when I round a corner in my car and there's one of those behemoths taking up most of the road coming at you! LOL Thanks for taking us along & good travelling to ye. Cheers
Back in the 70's when I moved to Port Hardy, getting used to 16' bunks coming down the road was a lesson in driving skills. Was a childhood dream from the age of 13 to live here, coming at 18 was the best move of my life. Thanks for posting !
If you really did that then you would know you’re supposed to be on the radio calling your position and listening for theirs so you can safely use the pull outs instead of coming around a corner head on with the logging trucks, hmm…
@@CanadianWolverine A lot of the roads are multi-use now, not ' restricted ' as in the past, mainly because on-road trucks are the norm, and 16' bunks are rare, mostly used in the north, Haida Gwai etc and the camps along the coast.
Another gooder Stirling. You missed a ton of beauty rivers, falls and lakes on your way from Bamfield to Port Alberni. You’ll have to catch those next time you’re here 👍🏻
Port Alberni to bamfield has now been resurfaced with chipseal. the road is great You can now ride a bike or small car without worrying about dust or potholes.
30,000 plus miles every year motorcycle exploring in the US. Hammock with an under quilt & a very large tarp all year. Ground sleepers are for the young.
Super nice video! The village is lovely my kind of place. As to the packing approach I have the same. No extra or nice to have when we tour. Just the essentials. This makes it for a slimmer and lighter load. I am learning the art of selection for a trip still now …..
That road to bamfield is primarily a haul road for the logging industry. Should've seen it a few years ago when the fat trucks were running. 100klb payloads
@@SterlingNoren Well Vancouver Island is a temperate rain forest so you were lucky. I grew up on the island and the tarp was always the first thing up. What time of year was your trip?
What? In Courtenay already???? Did you just blow past Cathedral Grove where the trees are humongous and you can walk among them? The speed limit makes you have to slow down through that section so you can't possibly miss it.!!!
Now with Hwy 4 closed due to fire and subsequent falling debris and weakened steep grade, he even passes by that part of the highway in 8:55 of the video, popularity has significantly dropped as car rentals and insurance are telling tourists and delivery trucks stay off the back roads. Sure hope we realize Victoria MLAs and Ottawa MPs need to tell Mosaic to piss off and start consider better bridges and other improvements in their budgets to the route to Youbou and Courtenay to make the island less vulnerable to being cut off by the next flood, sink hole, rock slide, high winds and fires that come with increased frequency of extreme weather events with the added bonus of more scenic routes for adventurous tourists.
Im not disagreeing with you Sterling but have you seen the Haven Safari? Lay flat hammock that can also be a tent. In combo with a tarp i think its the winner winner chicken dinner.
I love hammocks, but they are challenging 😢 I got a double layer hammock so I can slide my air pad inside for insulation. I klymit insulated V and I can get to the high 40's if its not to windy
As someone from Edinburgh, Scotland, looking at Google maps, Vancouver Island appears to have a number of Scottish names dotted around the island, Cape Scott, Kildonan, Port Renfrew, Duncan, Cameron Lake, Dunsmuir, Campbell River, Heriot Bay, Port McNeill. I'm just wondering if there is a connection and if so why ? As a guy who's been there, any ideas ? Enjoying your trip, envious of decent riding/camping weather !! 👍
The "British" part of British Columbia might be a dead giveaway! Like other Canadian provinces, largely populated by British Isles immigrants both before and after confederation. Many others of course too.
Hi Richard, great questions, I do know that Kildonan was the site of a fish cannery in early 1900s and bought out by Wallace Bros Packing Co, and renamed Kildonan after their home town (village) on the Isle of Arran. Port McNeill (about 5 miles by water from where I live.) was named after Cap't William Henry McNeill of the Hudsons Bay Company which played a huge part in opening up Canada to European (lots of Scots!) settlement. Modern Van. Isle place names are either Indigenous, British/Scots or, in south west BC Spanish. Cities; Nanaimo, Comox are indigenous names, Victoria, Campbell River are English, Galiano Island, Strait of Juan de Fuca are Spanish names. PS my grandmother was born in Edinburgh came to Vancouver Island at 4 yrs of age. Cheers from the village of Sointula (a Finnish name on Malcolm Island)
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As a fellow GS owner, mt favorite part of all of these videos is the brief valve chatter at the startup of every episode. Makes me feel like I'm home.
Agreed, I think the same thing every time he starts it. Makes me wish it was me starting the bike up for a day's journey.
Don't be in any hurry Sterling. We're loving every minute of this!
Your production skills are off the charts. It’s a motorcycle tour, it’s a tourist show, and more
Bamfield is such a beautiful little town. Well worth the stop
What a unique community! Thanks for tthe awesome experience .👍🇨🇦
Yep, overpack every time also. For me, I will never be without my tarp and one-man tent. two items that are pretty small to pack but precious to have. 🤟🏼🇺🇸
Of all the channels I watch yours remains the most anticipated. It’s like hanging out with a good friend and just enjoying living.
Great video , you are such a very small percentage of us ADV riders who do what you do. Keep up the great work. Much respect.
This channel is underrated.
"Bamfield" will be my kind of town myself. Thanks for sharing.
Great video! Cool boardwalk and camp spot👌🏼 cheers mate
Thank you for another great video. ❤
So cool. My first trip to the island was in 75. Hope to be there this summer on my bike. There's nothing quite like British Columbia.
After watching most of your video library for weeks, I’ve accumulated my camping kit and will be heading out in the morning to the Smokey’s from south Florida for my first ever motocamp trip. Thanks for the inspiration and lessons. I’ve been riding for 40 years but never did anything like this. Thank you Sterling!
When you mentioned bears, I thought to myself this is going to get interesting, the poor guy is going to be awake all night, alls good though and ended well with a lovely spot, nice countryside, that walk was really nice on the other side of the inlet, beautiful, a very laid back place to live, looks like nothing happens in a rush, nice, my kind of place.
You really got lucky with the island weather so far. The local black bears are just as apprehensive with us as we are with them. It’s the grizzlies on the mainland you gotta be more cautious with. Though either variety might spoil your night if you go inviting them around with food or trash.
I've been to Courtenay...camped.....Awesome. I hope in the next episode you make it a bit further north to Campbell River (my favourite Vancouver Island spot). Thanks again.
Being an adventure rider and growing up around Banfield I really appreciate your video. Thanks
This series is exactly what I need right now. Thank you for creating such great content.
Wow!, I live in Canada and hope to experience its beautiful places. Thank you Sterling, so peaceful and inspiring your storytelling, you make my soul dreams..
I so love how you present, Your Editing and smooth narration great music Top shelf Content
Loved that town , how peaceful was that ! and a great camp site at the end of the day . Thanks Pete Western Australia
Man, you really know how to enjoy. Just keep going
Shame you didn’t get a chance to visit the marine research station! It’s the heart of that community.
What an epic trip. I hope someday I get to take a ride like this. Thanks for sharing with us.
Riding in my “back yard” ( live in Comox) enjoying your adventure and looking forward to more episodes..and yes.. we are spoiled on the island…
Looking at that coastal view at the end of the video I was imagining setting up a hammock and just laying there right at the water's edge, sipping on a big person beverage and letting the oceans breeze take over my senses. Kudos, brother Sterling ......
Great video thank you very well done thanks for taking us along cheers to ya.
Always entertaining to watch, thanks 😊
Love British Columbia!
Nice job Sterling. Nice how you show the little stops.
Great video, I found it very relaxing.Thank you for sharing & stay safe!
What a nice trip, ENJOY 😊
This is great! My first road trip ever was to Bamfield on my kz440!
Beautiful video. Thank you for all the information
Love your channel, Sterling.
“This is a camping trip, eh”. Uh oh. You’re picking up our lingo already, eh.
Sterling, I find so much useful information in your content. I, too, love to spend many days on the bike out travelling and experiencing. You always get me thinking about what I can change to make my trips more enjoyable, or to pack less, or in some cases, pack more. Thanks for taking the time to make such entertaining and informational content! Cheers!
Excellent!
I'm loading up my bike for a casual weekend of moto camping in Utah. Thanks for the inspiration.
Living in the rain forests along the west coast of Vancouver Island, I couldn’t help but have a chuckle at the getting rid of the hammock and **rain** tarp. Even, dry pads for a night are basically only found at paid for reserved prepared sites … ahahaha, he’s scared of the čims, oh boy, tourists crack me up.
Thought you did a great job of Bamfield! 🤗👍🏼
yes basics are the best that was a great video thanks uk
Beautiful place, thanks Sterling for another fab film, makes me feel happy and contented. 😀Oh well, back to work tomorrow....hundreds of cars and traffic jams😪
Looks like a beautiful part of the country. Excellent video as always 👍🏻😎
Thanks dude!
greatl videography
Sterling your content is always excellent and makes me what to jump on my GS and take off somewhere ! Could you please feature your riding gear sometime in a future episode ?
You put a lot of effort into your videos.
Good vid. Minimal is best. If you don't use it you worry with it. Send it back is right. Many times I thought about chucking a bunch of stuff in the ocean. A few weeks out and never used it. So it stays home. After 50 some years of riding I can do without a lot. I'm not sure I'll even fool with photos and vids anymore. At almost 68 there is nothing to prove but maybe some to share.with my less fortunate friends. I don't need it. I'll have to check Bamfield out. That's the kind of place I like the most. Safe travels where ever you are.
Love your videos. Give me a chance to experience something calm and beautiful in a life filled with pain and mental issues.
Wow! What a beautiful place to travel by bike and tent!
As always, great video. I learn a lot from your content. I am new to getting into motorcycle camping, and you've helped me decide what to pack, buy, and how to travel. Keep up the great work.
Great video, my neck of the woods!
Regarding flow: Sometimes we don't camp, but take B&Bs. Especially when it's getting cold and damp, like at the upcoming tour end of October in the Bohemian forest/Czechia. It's so much faster in the morning when you don't have to wrap up your wet tent. I really like your video style. Gotta a lot to see after being away for a while in Romania (Transalp 600) and Wales (Beta Alp 200). Cheers from Nürnberg/Germany, Günter
Sterling, one of your fellow world travelers and history makers is here in VA. Saturday. Elspeth Beard, the first lady to travel the globe on a BMW. Her story is on CZcams
I don’t know if it’s because you have been travelling in Canada for a bit, but I did notice that have adopted our use of “eh” in yourexpressions. Love that you documented your journey. Pitter patter, let’s get at er.
Just found this vid. Bamfield is my home.
Great commentary Sterling. Loved your exploration of that little town too. I live near Van island but have yet to explore those roads. Better get after it. : ). Nice work!!
You should! The island is always a nice getaway and lots of good roads to explore up there.
Did you stop at Cathedral Grove? One of the most majestic places on earth in my opinion. Looking forward to the next episode!!
Glad you're enjoying Van.Island. Pretty much all of those gravel roads you've been travelling on were built to harvest the timber in the area. I hauled logs with huge off highway trucks when I was a (much) younger fella on the island. I still get a start when I round a corner in my car and there's one of those behemoths taking up most of the road coming at you! LOL Thanks for taking us along & good travelling to ye. Cheers
Back in the 70's when I moved to Port Hardy, getting used to 16' bunks coming down the road was a lesson in driving skills.
Was a childhood dream from the age of 13 to live here, coming at 18 was the best move of my life.
Thanks for posting !
If you really did that then you would know you’re supposed to be on the radio calling your position and listening for theirs so you can safely use the pull outs instead of coming around a corner head on with the logging trucks, hmm…
@@CanadianWolverine A lot of the roads are multi-use now, not ' restricted ' as in the past, mainly because on-road trucks are the norm, and 16' bunks are rare, mostly used in the north, Haida Gwai etc and the camps along the coast.
Another gooder Stirling. You missed a ton of beauty rivers, falls and lakes on your way from Bamfield to Port Alberni. You’ll have to catch those next time you’re here 👍🏻
Coombs store and the hill out of Port ,, Mac n Blo forest ( Cathedral Grove ) before Cameron Lake, and the road to Ucluelet / Tofino.
Inspiration Sir, keep em coming. Thanks.
"hi5, namaste" good video buddy:-*
Absolutely stunning areas to explore
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Port Alberni to bamfield has now been resurfaced with chipseal. the road is great You can now ride a bike or small car without worrying about dust or potholes.
Wow what a great day that was !!
Well I'm convinced.. I only live 3 1/2 hours from Port Angeles anyhow.
Do it!
30,000 plus miles every year motorcycle exploring in the US. Hammock with an under quilt & a very large tarp all year. Ground sleepers are for the young.
I love would love to see how you edit your videos!
Super nice video! The village is lovely my kind of place. As to the packing approach I have the same. No extra or nice to have when we tour. Just the essentials. This makes it for a slimmer and lighter load. I am learning the art of selection for a trip still now …..
Loving this trip, great videos!
Loved Bamfield.
That road to bamfield is primarily a haul road for the logging industry. Should've seen it a few years ago when the fat trucks were running. 100klb payloads
Next trip out west Banfield is on my list of places to visit.
You should look into the big agnes tiger wall 2 bike packing tent. Best tent for me I do the same motorcycle camping as you
As a lifelong British Columbian I would never go camping without a tarp.
I though the same. I want to be dry at night! And I am from Italy….
That’s what I thought too but the weather was perfect. Hardly any rain at all on this entire trip..
@@SterlingNoren Nothing like summer in the PNW….let’s keep this a secret though eh? 😉
@@SterlingNoren Well Vancouver Island is a temperate rain forest so you were lucky. I grew up on the island and the tarp was always the first thing up. What time of year was your trip?
I noticed you have a light on your dash! Anyway love the videos!
That campsite had nothing on the trees in Cathedral Grove. Too bad you never saw them.
What? In Courtenay already???? Did you just blow past Cathedral Grove where the trees are humongous and you can walk among them? The speed limit makes you have to slow down through that section so you can't possibly miss it.!!!
The road from Bamfield to Alberni will be completed (paved) by mid to late summer. Just a heads up. It's about to become more popular lol
Now with Hwy 4 closed due to fire and subsequent falling debris and weakened steep grade, he even passes by that part of the highway in 8:55 of the video, popularity has significantly dropped as car rentals and insurance are telling tourists and delivery trucks stay off the back roads. Sure hope we realize Victoria MLAs and Ottawa MPs need to tell Mosaic to piss off and start consider better bridges and other improvements in their budgets to the route to Youbou and Courtenay to make the island less vulnerable to being cut off by the next flood, sink hole, rock slide, high winds and fires that come with increased frequency of extreme weather events with the added bonus of more scenic routes for adventurous tourists.
Im not disagreeing with you Sterling but have you seen the Haven Safari? Lay flat hammock that can also be a tent. In combo with a tarp i think its the winner winner chicken dinner.
I love hammocks, but they are challenging 😢
I got a double layer hammock so I can slide my air pad inside for insulation. I klymit insulated V and I can get to the high 40's if its not to windy
Why did it end so suddenly?
I expect it to continue:)
super.
Great video! What was the name of the Campground in Courtenay. Thanks!
Check the link to my website in the description, I put a link to the campground in there
As someone from Edinburgh, Scotland, looking at Google maps, Vancouver Island appears to have a number of Scottish names dotted around the island, Cape Scott, Kildonan, Port Renfrew, Duncan, Cameron Lake, Dunsmuir, Campbell River, Heriot Bay, Port McNeill. I'm just wondering if there is a connection and if so why ?
As a guy who's been there, any ideas ?
Enjoying your trip, envious of decent riding/camping weather !! 👍
The "British" part of British Columbia might be a dead giveaway! Like other Canadian provinces, largely populated by British Isles immigrants both before and after confederation. Many others of course too.
Hi Richard, great questions, I do know that Kildonan was the site of a fish cannery in early 1900s and bought out by Wallace Bros Packing Co, and renamed Kildonan after their home town (village) on the Isle of Arran. Port McNeill (about 5 miles by water from where I live.) was named after Cap't William Henry McNeill of the Hudsons Bay Company which played a huge part in opening up Canada to European (lots of Scots!) settlement. Modern Van. Isle place names are either Indigenous, British/Scots or, in south west BC Spanish. Cities; Nanaimo, Comox are indigenous names, Victoria, Campbell River are English, Galiano Island, Strait of Juan de Fuca are Spanish names. PS my grandmother was born in Edinburgh came to Vancouver Island at 4 yrs of age. Cheers from the village of Sointula (a Finnish name on Malcolm Island)
What was the camp site on the east side of the island called at the end of the video ?
FYI I live in Comox/Courtenay B.C.
Appreciate your videos, nice work.
What time of year did you do this ride?
July
now Bamfield road is pave
I need to figure out a pole like that for my hard box. what did you use? thanks
You even dropped in a "EH" there ( Thanks from the all Canadians) sorry...
Did you go to school to be so cool?
When riding solo have you encountered any gear theft when leaving things on the bike unattended?
No, but Im usually in the backcountry without many other people. The biggest concern is when I go into a grocery store.
How much time it takes to edit and finish one episode?
About two days to do the video and add it to the website, etc.
Who makes your riding pants?
They are just a no-name generic pair of denim riding jeans, with protection in them of course. I also carry rain over-pants in case needed.
7:30 what is the orange warning light on the dash?
Tire pressure monitor sensor is disconnected because I have different wheels on the motorcycle
@@SterlingNoren thanks - I was "worried" for you. I have a 2005 Gs 1200 with no such system.....