Last month I did my first backpacking trip, I went for 3 days doing 275 km (map on last image) doing from Horsens, sleeping at a camp site near Silkeborg in my tent, then going on to Randers and then Hobro where I stayed in a little shelter thing, then on to Rebild and ending in Nibe.

Along the way I travel across The Uncovered Bridge, visited the sky mountain, (yes Denmark has named a 147 meter tall hill "the sky mountain"), took a swim in the cleanest lake in Denmark; Slåensø, travelled Denmarks longest "continuous" bike path, passed the Blue bridge of Randers, and got to ride around Rold skov and Rebild bakker.

Most of the trip was nice smooth bike path that is made on top of old railroad tracks (so no elevation gain basically), but also got off to do some proper gravel riding for some of it.

Day one I did 80 km, day two 115 and then 80 km again on the last day.

My bike is an ebike, though it has a small battery so I couldn't exactly get it to do all the work, but I did probably 20 % of the effort, doing more on the inclines. I brought my charger so I could charge overnight at the camp sites I used.

I like to travel quite light, so despite carrying all the food I ate on the trip, and bringing tent and so on I stuffed it into my 3 bags totalling around 15L capacity, with total weight of my gear being roughly 8kg excluding the 12kg bike.

Lastly, shoutout to my bike mechanic Mathias at Rold Skov cykler, I had an issue with my bike on the trip and went past their shop on my way. When we came to the conclusion that they didn't have a part that might fix my issue he got on the lathe and and made the part we needed to fix my bike.

by valdemarjoergensen

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