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Bicycle Touring and Bikepacking

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Crosposted from !camping@sh.itjust.works.

When I was about to break down my tent, six white Sardinian shepherd dogs showed up. Beautiful medium sized dogs. They were barking a bit, kept a bit of distance, eventually figured I was alright, then left. Guess they had work to do.

I left camp and cycled along this dirt track, which seemed to be a real promising panoramic path to go, when I ran into the group again. The sheep were right at the track and the dogs blocked my way. I stood there for a bit, tried what happened if I pushed my bike a bit more towards them, but they did not seem to like that whatsoever. Bummer. Well at least they left me alone through the night, i heard the sheep's bells and dog's barks all around me when i got here yesterday and was a bit worried they'd bark me out of the spot in the night.

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Anyway, i did not want to test how far they would go and decided to turn around and take a different route along some asphalt road, which was also real nice, nobody around but some cows, sheep and cork trees.

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[–] bonjour@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I love the brouter app, have you had a look at the profiles and the configurability. I thought it used to be much better than alternatives, but they might have caught up, I just kept using this one for a long time. There is also an android plugin for osmand and some other apps, so I can use the same routing on the go, it routes much faster than osmand internal engine and I like that I have the identical routing to what I have planned.

But i guess the best routing is the one where you know how it works and know about the flaws etc.

But yeah trip is over, back at work.

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gonna check out Brouter and the Osmand plugin, thanks.

But yeah trip is over, back at work.

There's only one solution - a pigeon photoshoot!

[–] bonjour@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you actually try the plugin, after setting up the brouter engine profile, you most likely want to uncheck the "use fastest route" option in osmand, that always seems to be activated and i always forget to uncheck it when i set it up new.

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Thx for the tip.