The Crazy Stupid Insanity Continues! Don't Follow Me! (S2D15b Bikepacking ) 

Persevere persevereran perseverance. You are all of those, who keeps on keeping on. Like a poll vaulter who wants to keep reaching higher and higher. CONQUERER a person who conquers or succeeds, doesn't accept failure. I enjoy watching and HIKE A BIKE SAFE

The views you provided were worth every step you took! Thanks!

Human on the muuuud, human on the roooocks! U did it girl! Respect!!! I love your adventures!

Spent the last few days hiking and camping Washington’s wild coast. I know how your thighs felt, overused and your arms and back got one hell of a workout, pulling and pushing your bike upward into the unknown. Over used muscles feel ungrateful and during the hell of the climb they let you know that they are not happy. You made it through to the joy and wonder you so richly earned. Thank you.

Beautiful "footage"...."push-age"? Man, what a trail (and a 1/2)! Gorgeous campsite, tho. A super reward for a long day's work. Envious and in awe (as usual). XO !

Amazing place and one hell of a trek to get there 🙂

The slow progression of you losing your mind (not really losing it ) on the climb paired with the awesome pay off of that beautiful lake makes this a fantastic watch LOL

Naomi, your videos are an unrelenting source of joy. I recently finished a book by another super badass adventure named Jenny tough. The book is “solo.” She ran over the top of every major mountain chain on six continents. My favorite quote from her is one which may resonate: “You will soon forget the work. But you will never forget the view.” I love your videos and adore your spirit. ✌🏽

Was wondering if it was really worth the effort, until I saw that gorgeous view!💕

Your a real trooper. That was a seriously hard trail, and you did it. Congrats.

6:12 respect, Naomi. 👏🏼

What a magical campsite.

It's always a good day to take your bike for a walk.

The road to hike-a-bike hell is paved with good intentions, beautiful views, caddisflies, wall-hitting moments, a triple-double black trail masquerading as a double black, bear spray, and post-production video editing. Awesome video!

Maybe in the morning your ego will hurt the most. But it shouldn't. You persevered and were rewarded with an amazing spot. Claim your win! Lots of bear talk in this one... hope it's unfounded. Thanks for sharing/inspiring.

The bears won't bother you. They are sitting back, eating blueberries, watching you from afar, and thinking she's the modern version of the legendary Goldilocks biking in the woods.

She who dares wins Stunning !

More like Super Human on the Loose. Impressive.

Its not just a ride, its an adventure and you're stronger for it. I wouldn't call you disheveled, you are natural, nature. And I'm jealous.

Those HAB looked brutal.

Thank you so much for embracing the suck and taking us with you. From my perspective (in my recliner) it was definitely worth the effort. That campsite looks like heaven! Wow. You are so inspiring. I hope you savor the rewards of your perseverance! Yer the best!

Loved all your videos, like others have binged watched them all, thanks for sharing and inspiring x

Naomi you are just a breath of fresh air love your videos and attitude towards life you rock my friend. I bet there was a lot 🤬🤬🤬’s in between those smiles ✨

Hey Naomi, love your positive attitude, your right it can always be worse. You've picked one beautiful place to have a bad day. It was also great to hear the pooky bear song again. Happy trails .

Looks amazing! Beast mode

unlatching your bear spray on the bike - really bad idea!! I had a friend who wiped out and was hit with a cloud from an unlatched bear spray. Way more possible than a bear attack.

Grueling, but what a view!!

Adventure!!!

Wow…absolute amazing effort and that scenery! Love this ❤

There is a good chance I would have cried. And I am ok with it. You are the best.

Wow, you determination to get up there is impressive! That downhill part looked close to impossible with all your bags & gear!

Great video...thank you for the inspiration

Ain’t no wild Cougar or Bear would dare takin you on right now😮…thanks for sharing your adventures.

What a beautiful person you are, another great adventure ! 🙏

Amazing work my friend. The grind was real…. And the view was OUT OF THIS WORLD 🌎! Was it worth it? 😊

Your really cool. Thanks for the video.

Awesome times, thanks for sharing the up and downs on your adventures. I think its great that you are out there alone doing your thing and braving the wilds, most of my adventuring is done solo as well. Cheers

I did alot of hike & Bike in Southern Colorado mountains 😆... totally worth it though

Namoi: Another day in the office for you. Do not quit on a bad day. At 13:05 with your hair a mess flowing out of you helmet, you either are a Yeti or have a blonde beard. Just kidding. Great effort on your part. I would help set up your tent, but I was not invited as your cabana boy. Enjoyed your rants and have a Happy Thanksgiving.

that looks like fun

I know it was a grueling day, but, on the plus side, you probably had a 10,000 calorie burn. Time to feast. 🤣🌭🍻🥧🍟🍕🍔

I cant imagine suffering with someone who makes you smile so much.... oh yea, i quit following you after the first season !

Naomi...that was crazy fun! 6:02 YES!!↗️🥴 but the worst suffering equates to the best of scenic views. At elevation I can't drink enough water. Your heart beats better when you're properly hydrated I've found out. Electrolytes rock🤘 Watching some of these sections were definitely cringeworthy🤯, but you stuck it out with passion and determination. We got to see your reward! That lake was so serene. Good thinking to take the safety off the bear spray, looks like it's in a position to where it's hard to accidentally discharge. The trigger on my bear spray looks identical to yours. Mountain lions are my main reasons for having it with me, pissed off elk too. My guess is your shoulders and neck would be the most used up from hike-a-bike that steep for miles. 7:45 don't you just love it!?! Uh, that's enough I'll just see myself out now.

Naomi, there are no bad choices in cycling. Just events and situations conspiring against you. Epic climb. Just think of that great view of the lake (Loch Ness)? at night.

so I can relate to discovering the horrible muddy trail.... on Day 2 of one of my first solo overnighter bike packing Oregon Coastal Range Timber Roads.

I think you feel like a bear will visit because that one leaning tree looks like a bear or three rubs on it ever day.

I saw you tried to post a NEW vid re your Thailand adventure. Hope to see it soon! (aka keep trying!) XO

So relaxing. Ever considered doing the Pacific coast hwy?

I have found that the trail ratings are varied trail to trail. I have ridden some rated a blue and there's more tech I would consider to be black. The inverse of that, black diamonds that really were pretty easy overall, there may have been a small section of exposure, gnarly rock, or very steep section, but they still rate the whole trail a black. Regardless, the efforts seem to payoff more with awesome views or just the experiences. Good job on not giving up because in most of my experiences, I felt worse for surrendering than pushing through the tough stuff.

Nice ♥️😘

I dont wear a helmet, its half a pound of plastic, u dont need. Caddis are great, my local river, in the spring, they crowd onto the rocks near the surface, to sunbathe. If you are ever going to Scotland, I will tell u everything that I know.......

You are lucky.

Hey Lady, such a joy to relive all of your videos. Just a quick question. Do you use your phone only for your videos ?

Hair would drive me crazy

Love your content ❤️But I reeely want to adjust your helmet straps !

Wow. Hardcore for sure. Thanks so much. Fun to watch you suffer ha ha. Kidding. Sort of. Stay healthy!

God is so merciful to us. I saw you stressing for water, and He brought it to you. He didn’t allow you to find no water.

Naomi. RU-vid Donovan....Dare to be different

When was this trips date ? You should get good payback for your efforts in pushing bike uphill with hopefully great scenery - less people - more nature and of course the way down,🍀🇬🇧. P.S I would have set your tent up and fetched water for you

Ok YOU ARE MISSED! Where are you?

I hope you have a personal locator device..

Так в этом и есть весь смысл велопоходов - заехать в дебри подальше и устать побольше)))

pretty and beautiful. Have you ever or known anyone who needed to use bear spray? luv as always

have you thought about a fat tire bike?

Can you share this route?

i,d like 2 teach u the lobtah dance dah harhah peace ride free

This should be fun not punishment. When does the fun begin? : /

H.O.T. Loose, you are still the prettiest lady on two wheels, and two feet. You are the idol of my heart.

You can come here. I have a condo. It would not cost you. You could get employment somewhere. You can save money. The place is a bit cramped, but there is a pool and you have your own room. There are two gyms. There is a sauna. There is a jacuzzi.

OMG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is a detailed answer about dogs. I wrote it on another thread for a person planning a transcon on a recumbent. As for dogs on tour, I have had many experiences with them. Some cyclists might carry pepper spray, which I have done but never used. I saw another advise carrying a water pistol containing a mixture of water and ammonia; this I have never done. The fact is that dogs can be an occasional annoyance or hassle or whatever, but by and large they are not a real danger unless one comes charging at you from out of nowhere, startling you, and causing you to involuntarily swerve out into traffic. It happens. There is something about the movement of cycling that sets dogs off into a headstrong frenzy of barking and chasing. I mean, you come along, and there is some dog in a yard. It has been lolling around all day perhaps. It catches sight of you going by on your bike, and it immediately goes nuts. It starts barking, snarling, yelping, and growling, and chasing you at high speed and going for your heels with all its might. I have seen dogs go absolutely bananas at the sight of me cycling, even if I was two hundred feet away from them. I have seen them come charging out at me, stopped only by a fence around the property. They would follow all along the fence line to the end, and then go ape trying to jump over the fence or tunnel under it. This kind of reaction comes from dogs of all sizes from the largest dogs to even those little Mexican Chihuahuas. That is no kidding. I was cycling through some town. Somebody was carrying one of those little Mexican dogs. It saw me. It went crazy trying to jump from its owners arms and chase along. I have worked out a manner of dealing with dogs. In spite of all the noise and chases not one dog has ever actually bitten me. However, they do seem to be fond of going for the feet, and some have come close to biting. First, slow down a bit, look at the dog and yell out a loud, sharp report, and when I say loud and sharp that is what is meant; something like you might expect to hear from a marine corps drill sargeant. You might have to yell a number of times. The yelling will bring some dogs to a halt. Some will stop temporarily and continue, and slow down or halt every time you yell. Just yell out hut or ha loud, sharp, and clear. If that does not dissuade the cur from pursuing his pleasure or whatever it is he gets out of the chase, come to a dead stop and give him the yell. He will stop. He may turn around and take off. He may tarry a while and snip and growl. He may come close, but my experience is the actual attack will not happen. I have cycled 34,000 miles through 19 countries, and six or more times across the USA, so I know of what I speak. I have always ridden an upright touring bike, therefore, having a dog running along and chasing at my heels is a different matter from riding a recumbent with the animal more nearly at the vital parts such as torso, head, and throat. My general advice is this. If you are concerned, do what I have told you, and carry a water pistol with water and ammonia in it, if legal to do so, or a very good pepper spray, not one of those little key chain things, but a canister with a real fog or large volume spray that comes out, but do not use it as a first response. If you yell and stop and yell, the dog will stop his pursuit. In other words, do not run and it will not chase. Often, as you are stopped at the roadside waiting for the animal to lose interest, its owner will come out and call it back, and it trots on home. If you stop and it stops and loses interest, it might head back to its territory on its own, but if you take off it will turn around and continue chasing. Dogs, for the most part, are a temporary nuisance, but not a real serious danger. However, I am sure cyclists have been actually attacked, and perhaps even injured. When stopped, the hound may come close, but will not actually sink its teeth into your hide. If it is particularly vicious or mean, give him a whiff of the pepper spray or whatever, but I have never found that to be necessary. If you get off the bike and walk a ways, which you would not or might not be able to do, it could lose interest; get back on and cycle away, and it will pick up where it left off, or just go home. Try not to let a dog catch you by surprise in close quarters. That happened to me once, and I tipped over injuring my ankle. It was at night on a quiet, placid road. A very large dog came charging aggressively from out of the bushes near the side of the road. All of a sudden I heard this very loud barking and snarling, and saw a blur out of the corner of my eye. In an attempt to stop, dismount immediately, and get the bike between myself and the attacking dog, I forgot my feet were strapped into the pedals, and tried to get off on the right of the bike, I fell over and twisted my ankle. Well, at least I fell over away from the dog and not toward it. After all that the dog just stood there looking at me, and turned around and left. It was one of the larger breeds of dog, and I am sure it would not have harmed me, but it caught me completely unexpected, and I reacted unthinking with a start. There was no time to think through what to do. The subconscious mind told me I was under attack and needed to respond, and I did. You might have dog problems in some areas at times, and no dog problems whatsoever in other places. In 1984 in winter along highway 90 in Florida free ranging dogs were all over the place, and I might add, were often seen dead along the roadside after having been slammed by motor vehicles. In 2007 I cycled 90, and there was not the first problem with the first dog; very different from 1984. In countrified areas dog owners may be more disposed to letting their dogs roam free. Some may be fenced in, but have some little tunnel dug out under the fence in some bush-covered corner. They actually seem to be smart enough to try and cover or hide their tunnels. Anyway, that is about all I can tell you. If you go into Eastern Europe, you may find canines of a very different stripe; very different from the friendly domesticated kind we are used to in the USA. As for some of those dogs I encountered in eastern Europe, nothing short of a firearm would save you. Some of those would run you to earth and kill you and eat you. I had never seen anything even remotely as vicious as those, and have not seen anything like it since. If there is any such thing as a homicidal, insane, psychotic, murderous, savage dog, those dogs were it. Thank God for chain link fences. They must have been raised to be that way.

“Don’t worry,we’re never gonna do that again.”😂🤣🤪😜🏔🚵‍♀️…………….🧊😎❤️

Great video...thank you for the inspiration