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I stood in a 200-seat opera house, in a town of a hundred people, and there wasn't another soul around — no cars, no shopkeepers, nothing, except the posters out front advertising next week's show, not last decade's. Alberta had been telling me, mile after empty mile, that there was nothing out here worth stopping for. It was lying the entire time. Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=13TuWRlF4-dv4XY6A0c5z8kgR_c5cX4s&usp=sharing Buy Me a Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/sterlingnoren My Camera Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/2L0DXAVO1VS9P?ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ons_mixed_d My Riding Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/3DYRS9R5LP63N?ref_=aipsflist My Kitchen - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/26JZ2Y66PVTYN?ref_=aipsflist My Camping Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/17PKW9CA5YXMZ?ref_=aipsflist Butler Maps - use code "norenfilms" for 10% off - https://www.butlermaps.com My Motel in Bisbee, AZ - https://www.thejonquil.com Configure your Ducati - https://configurator.ducati.com/bikes/us/en Rider Justice is the motorcycle law firm I recommend if you've been in an accident. Go to https://riderjustice.com/ to find more information and advice on protecting yourself and your motorcycle. Call Scott O'Sullivan at (877) 562-9425 Chapters: 0:00 Intro — The Empty Opera House 1:23 Crossing into Alberta 4:30 The Port of Wild Horse Border Crossing 5:51 Medicine Hat & the Saamis Tepee 8:31 The Brooks Aqueduct 11:13 Patricia Hotel & Water Hole 13:37 Morning at Patricia — Chain Repair 14:46 Backroads Toward Rosebud 15:41 Rosebud, Alberta — The Hidden Arts Town 19:05 Highway 2A — Bowden, Innisfail & Red Deer 20:03 St. Mary's Church, Red Deer 21:22 Lacombe — The World's Largest Fishing Lure 22:43 Small Games on the Road 23:20 Devon, Alberta 24:33 Reflections — Day 10 32:09 Joining Highway 43 — The East Access Route 33:20 Rochfort Bridge Trading Post 34:12 Fallen Four Memorial Park, Mayerthorpe 36:18 Athabasca River Valley & Whitecourt 38:23 Leaving Whitecourt — Industrial Highway 43 39:26 Little Smoky River 40:25 Peace River Country 41:04 Beaverlodge & the Giant Beaver 41:29 Crossing into British Columbia 41:46 Closing — What "Empty" Actually Meant About the Episode This episode covers roughly 1,000 miles of Alberta backroads, deliberately routed off the major highways between the Montana border and Dawson Creek, British Columbia — the official start of the Alaska Highway. Along the way: the Saamis Tepee, a 215-foot Olympic leftover from the 1988 Calgary Winter Games, relocated to Medicine Hat and now standing over one of the richest archaeological sites on the northern plains; the Brooks Aqueduct, a century-old engineering marvel that turned dismissed desert into farmland; Rosebud, a hamlet of about a hundred people that's secretly home to a full professional theater company; St. Mary's Church in Red Deer, designed by architect Douglas Cardinal using structural math so complex no Canadian computer of the time could run it; and a stop at the Fallen Four Memorial Park in Mayerthorpe, honoring four RCMP officers killed in the line of duty in 2005. This channel follows one rider, solo, on a Ducati Multistrada, documenting the history, geology, and people found along the way — not just the well-known stops, but the roadside oddities, ghost towns, and small-town history that most travelers ride right past. #MotorcycleTravel #Ducati #Multistrada #AdventureRiding #Alberta #AlaskaHighway #Rosebud #MedicineHat
Alberta's Quiet Lie
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I watched a family pull a fish out of the Missouri River that's basically unchanged since before there were people to catch it. That got me thinking about everything else on this stretch of road that people have gone out of their way to keep exactly as it was — a locomotive parked where it stopped 50 years ago, a prairie two sides are fighting over because they can't agree what it should become, old cars somebody refuses to let die. Montana, it turns out, is full of things people decided were worth keeping. Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1Yfs7JTVJxO3pdYfAquA9-UBQPGZTCb8&usp=sharing Buy Me a Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/sterlingnoren My Camera Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/2L0DXAVO1VS9P?ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ons_mixed_d My Riding Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/3DYRS9R5LP63N?ref_=aipsflist My Kitchen - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/26JZ2Y66PVTYN?ref_=aipsflist My Camping Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/17PKW9CA5YXMZ?ref_=aipsflist Butler Maps - use code "norenfilms" for 10% off - https://www.butlermaps.com My Motel in Bisbee, AZ - https://www.thejonquil.com Configure your Ducati - https://configurator.ducati.com/bikes/us/en Rider Justice is the motorcycle law firm I recommend if you've been in an accident. Go to https://riderjustice.com/ to find more information and advice on protecting yourself and your motorcycle. Call Scott O'Sullivan at (877) 562-9425 Chapters: 0:00 Intro — Things Worth Keeping 1:12 Morning at Madison Arm 3:50 Leaving Wyoming, Entering Montana 4:01 The Gallatin River Valley 6:56 Livingston & the Northern Pacific Depot 9:08 The Yellowstone River 9:56 Big Timber — Murals & Wool History 10:44 The Grand Hotel 11:20 The Yellowstone Trail & Eisenhower 12:01 Carnegie Library, Big Timber 12:26 Crazy Mountain Museum 13:44 Sweet Grass Pharmacy & Linda 15:18 Reflections — Wheatland County 16:07 Harlowton & the Milwaukee Road 18:07 Fergus County — The Road Gets Honest 19:19 Lewistown — City of Stone 20:13 Fergus County Courthouse & Carnegie Library 21:23 American Prairie Reserve 24:10 A Paddlefish from the Missouri 25:48 Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge — Auto Tour 29:40 Into Phillips County 29:57 Malta — Naming Legend & Antique Car Show 32:44 Malta's Depot & the Empire Builder 33:14 Sleeping Buffalo Rock 33:51 Sleeping Buffalo Hot Springs 34:35 Closing — The Paddlefish, Revisited About the Episode This episode covers 400 miles of Montana's Highway 191, from the Gallatin Valley near Yellowstone to the Canadian border, through country that Lewis and Clark described in words that still hold up today, and landscape so unchanged from a century ago that the painter Charles M. Russell's work of this exact region still looks accurate. Along the way: Harlowton, where the Milwaukee Railroad's last electric locomotive still sits exactly where it stopped in 1974; Lewistown, built stone by stone by Croatian masons a century ago; a land-use fight in the American Prairie Reserve between conservationists and local ranchers; a paddlefish pulled from the Missouri River, a species virtually unchanged since the age of dinosaurs; and Sleeping Buffalo Hot Springs, born from a failed 1922 oil well. This channel follows one rider, solo, on a Ducati Multistrada, documenting the history, geology, and people found along the way — not just the well-known stops, but the roadside oddities, ghost towns, and small-town history that most travelers ride right past. #MotorcycleTravel #Ducati #Multistrada #AdventureRiding #Montana #Highway191 #AmericanPrairie #Lewistown #Harlowton
Why Montana Never Let Go of Its Past
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I camped alone by a river once on this trip — no campground, no neighbors. Two hundred years earlier, a trapper named John Hoback camped in that same wilderness and never came back. This is Wyoming's stretch of Highway 191: fur trappers, wild horses, a rendezvous ground where mountain-man legends did business, a ghost town a drone couldn't find, and one night alone that taught me something about all of it. Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1braS5hLLBGJrScjO5DKQOc5fD5EoVtg&usp=sharing Buy Me a Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/sterlingnoren My Camera Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/2L0DXAVO1VS9P?ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ons_mixed_d My Riding Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/3DYRS9R5LP63N?ref_=aipsflist My Kitchen - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/26JZ2Y66PVTYN?ref_=aipsflist My Camping Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/17PKW9CA5YXMZ?ref_=aipsflist Butler Maps - use code "norenfilms" for 10% off - https://www.butlermaps.com My Motel in Bisbee, AZ - https://www.thejonquil.com Configure your Ducati - https://configurator.ducati.com/bikes/us/en Rider Justice is the motorcycle law firm I recommend if you've been in an accident. Go to https://riderjustice.com/ to find more information and advice on protecting yourself and your motorcycle. Call Scott O'Sullivan at (877) 562-9425 Chapters: 0:00 Intro — The Hoback River 1:08 Welcome & Crossing into Wyoming 1:24 Wild Horse Holding Facility 2:40 Reliance Tipple 4:03 Winton Ghost Town 5:49 Sand Springs & the Lander Cut (Oregon Trail) 7:20 The Wind River Range 8:17 Museum of the Mountain Man, Pinedale 9:18 Trappers Point Overlook 10:04 Green River Rendezvous Site 11:33 The Hoback River — John Hoback's Story 12:23 Elkhorn Trading Post 13:04 Wild Camping on the Hoback River 15:59 Reflections on Solo Travel 17:19 Jackson, Wyoming — Town Square & Antler Arches 18:25 Miller Ranch 18:52 T.A. Moulton Barn, Mormon Row 19:30 Highway 191 Through the National Parks 20:35 Grand Teton National Park 21:15 Schwabacher Landing & Teton Point Turnout 22:14 Oxbow Bend 22:27 Grizzly Bear Sighting 23:46 Yellowstone National Park 25:26 Yellowstone's Geothermal Basins 27:05 Old Faithful Inn 28:43 Riverside Drive, Madison River 29:10 Closing — The Hoback River, Revisited About the Episode This is Episode 3 of a solo motorcycle journey from southern Arizona to Alaska, roughly 10,000 miles over six weeks, riding U.S. Highway 191 north across Wyoming — about 400 miles from the Utah border to the Montana line. This stretch of 191 runs through some of the most historically significant ground in the American West. It passes an old coal tipple still standing in the sagebrush; the site of Winton, a coal camp that mostly emptied out when its mines closed in the 1950s — some houses were sold and hauled away whole to towns as far off as Idaho and Colorado, though real ruins, foundations, and stone walls still remain scattered across the site, low enough to the ground that they're easy to miss from the air. It follows the Oregon Trail's Lander Cut, climbs into the Wind River Range, and passes through Pinedale, where the Museum of the Mountain Man and the nearby Green River Rendezvous site mark one of the most important gathering places of the 19th-century fur trade — a spot where men like Jim Bridger, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith did business. It follows the Hoback River, named for a trapper who vanished into these same mountains in 1813, before ending in Jackson, Grand Teton National Park, and Yellowstone. This channel follows one rider, solo, on a Ducati Multistrada, documenting the history, geology, and people found along the way — not just the well-known stops, but the roadside oddities, ghost towns, and small-town history that most travelers ride right past. #AlaskaHighway #MotorcycleTravel #Highway191 #Wyoming #Ducati #Multistrada #AdventureRiding #GrandTeton #Yellowstone
I Camped Where He Disappeared
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A 112-million-year-old dinosaur footprint. A 40-foot pink dinosaur with eyelashes. Same highway, 200 miles apart. This is Utah's stretch of Highway 191 on a solo motorcycle ride from Arizona to Alaska — 500 miles of real fossils, fake dinosaurs, a uranium millionaire's mansion, a devastating mining disaster, and a pioneer settlement built by hand at the bottom of a canyon. Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1UbylRn1aZWKMiCoaNCabSBYVYBwHZ3A&usp=sharing Buy Me a Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/sterlingnoren My Camera Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/2L0DXAVO1VS9P?ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ons_mixed_d My Riding Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/3DYRS9R5LP63N?ref_=aipsflist My Kitchen - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/26JZ2Y66PVTYN?ref_=aipsflist My Camping Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/17PKW9CA5YXMZ?ref_=aipsflist Butler Maps - use code "norenfilms" for 10% off - https://www.butlermaps.com My Motel in Bisbee, AZ - https://www.thejonquil.com Configure your Ducati - https://configurator.ducati.com/bikes/us/en Rider Justice is the motorcycle law firm I recommend if you've been in an accident. Go to https://riderjustice.com/ to find more information and advice on protecting yourself and your motorcycle. Call Scott O'Sullivan at (877) 562-9425 Chapters: 0:00 Intro — Real Dinosaur vs. Fake Dinosaur 0:59 Welcome & Channel Intro 1:12 Sand Island Campground & Ancient Rock Art 3:45 Bluff Fort — Pioneer History 5:44 Twin Rocks Cafe 6:14 Blanding & Recapture Reservoir 7:27 Church Rock & Wilson Arch 8:05 Hole N' the Rock 9:53 Moab & the Sunset Grill (Charlie Steen's Uranium Mansion) 11:32 Crossing the Colorado River 12:11 Arches National Park — Is It Worth It Solo? 14:17 Moab Giants — Life-Size Dinosaur Replicas 15:52 Mill Canyon Dinosaur Track Site — Real 112-Million-Year-Old Tracks 17:42 Green River & the John Wesley Powell Expedition 20:46 East Carbon — Abandoned Coke Ovens 24:04 Helper, Utah — Mining History & Museum 28:04 Castle Gate Cemetery — The 1924 Mining Disaster 30:29 Price Canyon Road Construction 32:16 Roosevelt, Utah — Uinta Basin 33:42 Vernal — Dinah the Dinosaur 35:17 Steinaker State Park — Campsite 38:10 Flaming Gorge & the Wyoming Border About the Episode This is Episode 2 of a solo motorcycle journey from southern Arizona to Alaska, roughly 10,000 miles over six weeks, riding U.S. Highway 191 for as long as it holds together before pushing north through Canada and up the Alaska Highway. Utah's stretch of 191 runs about 500 miles from the San Juan River near the Arizona border up to the Wyoming state line, and it turned out to be one of the strangest, most varied legs of the whole trip. It passes through Bluff, founded by Mormon pioneers who lowered an entire wagon train down a 1,300-foot cliff face to get here; Moab, built partly on a 1950s uranium fortune; the site of one of Utah's deadliest mining disasters at Castle Gate, where 172 men died in a single explosion in 1924; and two very different kinds of dinosaur stops — a roadside park full of life-size replicas, and an actual scientific track site discovered in 2009, holding real footprints left more than 112 million years ago. This channel follows one rider, solo, on a Ducati Multistrada, documenting the history, geology, and people found along the way — not just the well-known stops, but the roadside oddities, ghost towns, and small-town history that most travelers ride right past. #MotorcycleTravel #Highway191 #Utah #Ducati #Multistrada #AdventureRiding #Moab #ArchesNationalPark
Real vs. Fake for 500 Miles in Utah
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He built a jail into a solid cliff face — and was locked inside it himself, the same day, for celebrating too hard. That's just the start of Arizona's Highway 191: a road that swallowed an entire mining town, earned the nickname "the Devil's Highway," and ends at a cemetery holding two outlaws a century apart. This is the first leg of a solo motorcycle ride from southern Arizona to Alaska — roughly 10,000 miles over six weeks, starting right here on one of the longest three-digit highways in the country. Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1xllFuv59sINd1Q3Pc72Zmxpgso4xLSY&usp=sharing Buy Me a Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/sterlingnoren My Camera Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/2L0DXAVO1VS9P?ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ons_mixed_d My Riding Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/3DYRS9R5LP63N?ref_=aipsflist My Kitchen - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/26JZ2Y66PVTYN?ref_=aipsflist My Camping Gear - https://www.amazon.com/shop/motorcycletravelchannel/list/17PKW9CA5YXMZ?ref_=aipsflist Butler Maps - use code "norenfilms" for 10% off - https://www.butlermaps.com My Motel in Bisbee, AZ - https://www.thejonquil.com Configure your Ducati - https://configurator.ducati.com/bikes/us/en Rider Justice is the motorcycle law firm I recommend if you've been in an accident. Go to https://riderjustice.com/ to find more information and advice on protecting yourself and your motorcycle. Call Scott O'Sullivan at (877) 562-9425 Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:00 Welcome & Channel Intro 1:48 Whitewater Draw 3:29 Pearce — Arizona Gold Rush Ghost Town 6:39 Willcox — Cattle Capital of the World 7:34 The Willcox Dining Car 9:36 Rex Allen Museum 10:56 Mount Graham & Safford 12:48 Clifton — The Cliff Jail 15:59 Morenci — The Mine That Swallowed Two Towns 19:03 The Coronado Trail & the Devil's Highway 20:56 HL Saddle — Picnic Table at the End of the World 22:49 Strayhorse Campground — Morning 25:22 Blue Vista 27:09 Hannagan Meadow 27:33 Alpine — The Wallow Fire & Bear Wallow Cafe 29:22 Springerville — El Rio Theater & John Wilhelm's Sculptures 30:30 Springerville Cemetery — Ike Clanton & Milton William Cooper 33:20 St. Johns 35:02 Sanders — The Valentine Diner 37:25 Allentown Bridge 39:03 Navajo Trading Post 40:06 Hubbell Trading Post, Ganado 46:07 Crossing into Utah About the Episode This is Episode 1 of a solo motorcycle journey from southern Arizona to Alaska, roughly 10,000 miles over six weeks, following U.S. Highway 191 north from the Mexican border for as long as the road holds together before pushing on toward Canada and up the Alaska Highway. Arizona's stretch of 191 runs from the Sulphur Springs Valley up through the White Mountains and into the Navajo Nation, and it's packed with more strange, dark, and genuinely surprising history than a first-time rider would expect. It passes through Pearce, once home to the richest gold strike in the state; Willcox, the self-declared cattle capital of the world and home of actor Rex Allen; Clifton, where a stonemason blasted his own jail cell into a cliff and became its first prisoner; Morenci, an open-pit copper mine so large it swallowed two entire towns; and the Coronado Trail, over 400 curves of mountain road once known as the Devil's Highway. It ends at Hubbell Trading Post in Ganado, the oldest continuously operating trading post on the Navajo Nation, before crossing into Utah. This channel follows one rider, solo, on a Ducati Multistrada, documenting the history, geology, and people found along the way — not just the well-known stops, but the roadside oddities, ghost towns, and small-town history that most travelers ride right past. #AlaskaHighway #MotorcycleTravel #Highway191 #Arizona #Ducati #Multistrada #AdventureRiding #Willcox #CoronadoTrail
581 Miles on Arizona's Strangest Road
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WHAT THE ROAD GAVE BACK | My Life as a Backcountry Motorcycle Filmmaker (Full Presentation) In this hour-long talk, recorded live at the Backcountry Discovery Routes (BDR) annual fundraiser in Big Bear, California, filmmaker Sterling Noren shares the story behind 25+ years of motorcycle travel filmmaking — and how a single organization changed the entire course of his life. Sterling walks through his path from a rough childhood in Michigan and an 8-year-old's first taste of freedom on a Honda 50, to filming fishing shows, chasing a dream job with National Geographic, and eventually crossing continents with adventure motorcycling pioneer Helge Pedersen. From there, the story leads into the founding of Backcountry Discovery Routes in 2010 and the 15 years of expedition filmmaking that followed — 22 full BDR routes ridden, 13 film expeditions, and 6 solo journeys. The back half of the presentation is a highlight reel pulled straight from those years on the road: joy, fear, solitude, discomfort, near-disaster, and everything in between — including a genuinely life-threatening dehydration scare in the Arizona backcountry, an unforgettable night camped with a sheepherder in Colorado, and a piece of gear-failure chaos caught on camera just days before this talk. If you've ever wondered what it actually costs — and what it actually gives back — to build a life around adventure and storytelling, this one's for you. LINKS My Gear - https://www.norenfilms.com/gear/ Butler Maps - use code "norenfilms" for 10% off - https://www.butlermaps.com Buy Me a Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/sterlingnoren My Motel - https://www.thejonquil.com TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Introduction: recorded at the BDR annual fundraiser 2:17 "What the Road Gave Back" begins 4:24 Childhood in Michigan, growing up without a dad 6:59 The Honda 50 that changed everything 7:40 Discovering filmmaking in high school 10:22 Moving to Seattle, buying a 1972 BMW R50 11:22 1998: buying his first GS and the search for a way in 12:43 Meeting Helge Pedersen and Globe Riders 13:38 Iceland 2001: his first feature-length motorcycle film 14:00 World tours: Siberia, the Silk Road, Indochina, Africa 15:16 Inspired by Survivorman and Dick Proenneke to go solo 16:14 Riding solo through Mexico and Copper Canyon 18:33 Seattle 2010: the founding of Backcountry Discovery Routes 20:22 Highlight reel begins: what the road gave back 21:05 Joy 22:43 Adversity: a scary, steep, solo climb in Colorado 25:17 Peace: monsoon camping in the Arizona desert 27:53 Discomfort: learning to embrace the grind 29:12 Comfort: mojitos in the Black Rock Desert 31:17 Bear safety while camping alone in Montana 33:23 A near-fatal dehydration scare in remote Arizona 37:42 Solitude on the road 39:08 The people you meet: a sheepherder in the Colorado high country 41:48 Self-sufficiency and picking up your own bike 43:14 Teamwork in southern Utah 44:42 Isolation at "the loneliest intersection in America" 46:06 Freedom: 53 days alone on a 53rd-birthday ride 48:00 Letting go of ego in an eastern Washington wheat field 50:09 Coming home changed 53:52 How the BDR led him to move to Bisbee, Arizona 54:53 A camera-bag disaster caught on camera, one day before this talk 59:47 Closing thoughts #BackcountryDiscoveryRoutes #AdventureMotorcycling #MotorcycleTravel #BDR #DualSport #MotorcycleFilmmaking #OverlandingMotorcycle
What the Road Gave Back
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Before heading out on an 11,000-mile, six-to-seven-week motorcycle adventure this summer, there's one rule I never skip: always shake down the bike, gear, and camera setup on a shorter trip first. This is that shakedown ride — a one-week trip on the Ducati Multistrada V2 from Bisbee, Arizona to the annual Backcountry Discovery Routes (BDR) fundraiser in Big Bear, California. Along the way: a stop at our own Desert Adventure Rally back home, a look at some backyard motel projects (including a bar I built myself), a multi-camera test setup for the summer trip, a completely unscientific campground rating system, and arrival at the BDR fundraiser — with quick catch-ups with Kyle Stevens, Ron West ("the voice of the BDR"), Jocelyn Snow, and Robert from the BDR team. Then, on the group ride out of Big Bear, everything goes sideways. My camera bag comes loose, gets sucked into the motorcycle mid-ride, and I end up with what might be the single most destructive gear failure of my 28 years as a motorcycle filmmaker. I walk through the full damage assessment back at the hotel — camera, drone, mics, and all. Silver lining: better to find out now than thousands of miles from home. Gear's already replaced, bike's ready, and the big summer adventure is on. Coming up next: the full presentation I gave at the BDR fundraiser about my life as a backcountry motorcycle filmmaker. LINKS My Gear - https://www.norenfilms.com/gear/ Butler Maps - use code "norenfilms" for 10% off - https://www.butlermaps.com Buy Me a Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/sterlingnoren My Motel - https://www.thejonquil.com TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Getting ready for the ride, heading to the BDR fundraiser 0:34 Why you always test-ride before a big trip 0:58 The summer plan: 6-7 weeks, 11,000 miles 1:13 Recap: our Desert Adventure Rally, 130 riders 1:44 New backyard workshop and the bar I built 2:23 Testing the multi-camera setup 2:42 Gas stop and goodbye to Loretta 3:53 Historic Highway 80 5:22 Crossing the Tohono O'odham Nation 6:59 A vintage motel sign in Salome, Arizona 9:12 Rating my campground: beauty, legality, solitude, cost, water 10:21 Morning departure toward Big Bear 12:23 Climbing into Big Bear, elevation and cooler air 12:52 Arriving at the BDR fundraiser hotel 13:31 Touring the bike collection in the parking lot 15:12 Interview: Kyle Stevens 16:37 Interview: Ron West, "the voice of the BDR" 17:20 Interview: Jocelyn Snow 17:44 Interview: Robert, BDR operations manager 18:59 Breakfast and route planning 19:16 Heading out on Route 2, the Big Bear loop 20:46 Riding the moderate backcountry route 22:24 The camera bag falls off 23:07 The bag gets sucked into the bike 24:01 Roadside damage assessment and a stranger's help 24:52 Full gear damage assessment back at the hotel 28:49 Reflections and what I'd do differently 29:25 Wrap-up and what's coming next #BackcountryDiscoveryRoutes #AdventureMotorcycling #MotorcycleTravel #BDR #Ducati #Multistrada #MotorcycleFilmmaking
I Destroyed Everything
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The final day of the Edelweiss Croatia to Greece motorcycle tour — and it's a good one to go out on. Starting from a farm-to-table hotel in Nafplio, the group rides along the coast toward Athens, stopping to check out a hilltop castle and a harbor full of super yachts before climbing a surprisingly fun stretch of backcountry pavement up to one of the most significant amphitheaters in ancient Greece — a 14,000-seat theater built in the 4th century BC, with acoustics still famous today. From there it's back down to the coast for one last lunch at a working fishing harbor, a crossing of the Corinth Canal (completed in the 1800s, still carrying over 11,000 ships a year), and the final push into Athens to close out 12 days, 9 motorcycles, 11 riders, two guides, and one support vehicle. Huge thanks to Edelweiss Bike Travel for an incredible trip — link below if you want to check out their tours. LINKS Edelweiss Bike Travel - www.edelweissbike.com My Gear - https://www.norenfilms.com/gear/ Butler Maps - use code "norenfilms" for 10% off - https://www.butlermaps.com Buy Me a Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/sterlingnoren My Motel - https://www.thejonquil.com TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Final day of the Edelweiss Croatia to Greece tour 0:47 Leaving Nafplio, riding the coast toward Athens 1:06 Nafplio's hilltop castle and harbor superyachts 1:26 Back on the coastal road 1:56 A fun backcountry climb toward the amphitheater 1:58 Exploring one of ancient Greece's largest amphitheaters 3:53 A scenic Greek fishing harbor 5:15 One last lunch by the water 5:46 Crossing the Corinth Canal 6:12 Final push into Athens 6:46 Arrival: trip complete 7:01 Trip recap: 12 days, 9 bikes, 11 riders #Edelweiss #MotorcycleTravel #Greece #AdventureMotorcycling #MotorcycleTouring #Nafplio #Athens
Motorcycling the Peloponnese
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Two of the best riding days of the trip, back to back. Day 10 starts with a morning at Ancient Olympia — birthplace of the Olympic Games, buried underground for centuries after an earthquake until German archaeologists rediscovered it in the 1800s, sparking the first modern Olympics in 1896. From there it's a ride through misty mountain villages, an unplanned stop at a hidden hillside market, lunch on a basketball court, and a visit to a cliffside rock church with a local legend behind it — followed by one of the best roads of the whole trip. Day 11 picks up in Kalamata and climbs over a mountain pass into Sparta, with a coffee stop at the statue of King Leonidas, before descending through hairpin canyon roads to the Argolic Gulf coastline. The riding here rivals Big Sur — brand-new pavement clinging to cliffs above the ocean, tiny whitewashed villages, bougainvillea-covered homes, and two well-earned coffee stops along the way. The day wraps at the Paravoli Country Hotel and Retreat, a farm-to-table stop overlooking the coast, with just one riding day left on this trip. LINKS Edelweiss Bike Travel - https://www.edelweissbike.com My Gear - https://www.norenfilms.com/gear/ Butler Maps - use code "norenfilms" for 10% off - https://www.butlermaps.com Buy Me a Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/sterlingnoren My Motel - https://www.thejonquil.com TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Day 10 begins, heading out from Olympia 0:44 Exploring Ancient Olympia 2:18 Running the ancient stadion track 2:38 A hidden hillside village 3:42 Riding south toward Kalamata 3:55 Lunch on a basketball court 4:53 Visiting the rock church 6:01 A spectacular canyon road to close out day 10 6:29 Day 11 begins, leaving Kalamata 8:29 Sparta and the statue of Leonidas 9:30 Climbing back into the mountains 9:55 A racetrack-like descent to hillside villages 10:47 First view of the ocean from thousands of feet up 11:37 Descending toward the coast 13:50 A brand-new cliffside coastal road 15:01 Afternoon coffee stop by the harbor 16:52 Reflections on the trip so far 18:03 Arriving at Paravoli Country Hotel, end of day 11 #Edelweiss #MotorcycleTravel #Greece #AdventureMotorcycling #MotorcycleTouring #AncientOlympia #Sparta #BigSur
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