We have had a lot happening lately and realized we hadn’t made a blog post for about 9 days, so here is a catch up. Besides selling a handful of bikes and having rentals plus people doing the loop in Topanga for the first time, we have also had a couple adventures.
Thomas, who used to live in the area and we stayed with when we went to Eurobike, was in town for a couple days. When he arrived on Tuesday we basically kidnapped him into camping with us in the Los Padres National Forest. We went up to Pine Mountain (with Rover) and camped. After a normal camping breakfast, we hiked for UnPredict Your Wednesday into the forest. Super fun adventure including some trail blazing.
Saturday’s shop ride was the grueling climb up Red Rock because Scott (Now Scott 2.1) was doing his first ride on his new single speed Surly Karate Monkey. The views were amazing and we had a poetry reading on the top.
More bike sales and stuff led us to Tuesday this week when we went to Big Bear camping and riding with Alexandre on his first adventure like this. We found a great area up around Skyline Trail and camped in the middle of nowhere. Stars in the sky and noone around. In the morning we road the amazing trail above Big Bear for UnPredict Your Wednesday.
Here are photos of all of this in random order mixing up the adventures……
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- Camping in Big Bear for UnPredict Your Wednesday.
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- Chris and Scott on the adventure.
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- Foraging through the woods. UnPredicting a Wednesday.
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- Thomas is in town from Germany.
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- Chcking out the view in the Santa Monica Mountains
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- Rover relaxing at the shop
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- Can you find Alexandre?
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- Eat a decent breakfast before a ride and the day is nicer.
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- Thomas selfie.
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- Coffeetime with Latigo Coffee.
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- Scott 2.1 in Big Bear Bikepacking and riding
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- Saturday Morning ride in the Santa Monica Mountains.
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- Topanga on our Saturday Ride
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- Peace. It is back. Please .
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- Bikepacking in Big Bear.
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- Morning coffee.
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- Thomas camping with us on Pine Mountain the day he arrived from Germany.
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- Tents, bikes, trails and the forest.
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- Rover chilling at a different spot in the shop.
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- Scott 2.1 brewing up a bit of Latigo Coffee.
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- Alexandre having coffee in the morning before the amazing Skyline Drive Trail above Big Bear.
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- Eating healthy is a great way to start the day. Field Nutrition
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- We were there.
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- The 3 Muskateers.
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- Chris at the camping spot in the forest.
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- Chris drinking from his Mellow Velo waterbottle.
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- Riding in Big Bear.
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- Scott and Rover hiking in the forest.
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- Saturday Ride
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- Camping on Tuesday before the Wednesday hike.
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- Sott on the trail.
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- Eating right never goes out of style.
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- View from Chris’s tent on UnPredict Your Wednesday.
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- Chris waiting for poetry
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- Our camping spot.
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- Chris and Rover.
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- CONGRATULATIONS
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- Thomas
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- The quick ride meant that the backpacks would be OK.
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- Rover gets some water from Chris
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- Directions for Kyle.
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- The Skyline Drive trail is so much fun.
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- Alexandre is hooked.
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- A boy and his dog.
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- Camping and riding bikes
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- We encourage healthy eating.
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- Views everywhere.
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- Grub. Healthy Grub. Field Nutrition.
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- Topanga Canyon
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- Certificates of accomplishments.
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- Topanga is about peace.
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- Skyline Trail in Big Bear is such a fun riding place for mountain biking.
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- Day Hike and camping above Ojai
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- Scott 2.1 is doing a lot of wheel builds lately.
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- Los Padres National Forest Hiking
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- Chris climbing through the woods on Pine Mountain. Hiking day.
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- California has some great camping places.
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- Field Nutrition.
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- Tent, Scott and Rover.
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- 3 More riders in Topanga
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- Bikes and camping and mountains.
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- Rover Shop Dog.
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- Hand laced wheels happening almost every day lately.
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- THOMAS
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- Riding in Topanga is ideal right now.
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- Nighttime on the mountain.
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- Iceland Hockey Team.
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- Camping on Pine Mountain
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- View before the weekly poetry.
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- Steelcut oatmeal breakfast is field nutrition.
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- Quirky or creative or both?
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- Rover is letting Chris know he is hungry.
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- Dirk gets a Rocky Mountain. Thomas picks it up for him in every sense.
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- Breakfast Coffee and Oatmeal. We are encouraging people to remember to be healthy.
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- Meditation and coffee and coffee talk.