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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- Rover is letting Chris know he is hungry.
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- Alexandre is hooked.
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- Tent, Scott and Rover.
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- Tents, bikes, trails and the forest.
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- Can you find Alexandre?
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- Field Nutrition.
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- Saturday Ride
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- Foraging through the woods. UnPredicting a Wednesday.
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- Riding in Topanga is ideal right now.
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- Iceland Hockey Team.
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- Rover relaxing at the shop
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- Saturday Morning ride in the Santa Monica Mountains.
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- The Skyline Drive trail is so much fun.
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- Chris drinking from his Mellow Velo waterbottle.
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- Coffeetime with Latigo Coffee.
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- Chris and Scott on the adventure.
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- Skyline Trail in Big Bear is such a fun riding place for mountain biking.
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- Dirk gets a Rocky Mountain. Thomas picks it up for him in every sense.
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- Peace. It is back. Please .
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- Rover gets some water from Chris
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- Bikes and camping and mountains.
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- Our camping spot.
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- Directions for Kyle.
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- Eating right never goes out of style.
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- The quick ride meant that the backpacks would be OK.
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- Scott 2.1 in Big Bear Bikepacking and riding
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- Topanga on our Saturday Ride
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- Chris and Rover.
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- Rover chilling at a different spot in the shop.
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- Thomas selfie.
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- Certificates of accomplishments.
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- Chris climbing through the woods on Pine Mountain. Hiking day.
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- Scott 2.1 brewing up a bit of Latigo Coffee.
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- We encourage healthy eating.
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- A boy and his dog.
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- View before the weekly poetry.
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- Chris waiting for poetry
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- California has some great camping places.
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- Thomas
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- Hand laced wheels happening almost every day lately.
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- Camping on Pine Mountain
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- Camping and riding bikes
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- Chris at the camping spot in the forest.
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- Alexandre having coffee in the morning before the amazing Skyline Drive Trail above Big Bear.
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- View from Chris’s tent on UnPredict Your Wednesday.
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- Chcking out the view in the Santa Monica Mountains
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- Nighttime on the mountain.
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- Grub. Healthy Grub. Field Nutrition.
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- Camping on Tuesday before the Wednesday hike.
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- THOMAS
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- We were there.
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- Day Hike and camping above Ojai
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- The 3 Muskateers.
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- Eat a decent breakfast before a ride and the day is nicer.
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- Views everywhere.
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- Thomas is in town from Germany.
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- 3 More riders in Topanga
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- Rover Shop Dog.
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- Thomas camping with us on Pine Mountain the day he arrived from Germany.
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- Topanga is about peace.
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- Eating healthy is a great way to start the day. Field Nutrition
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- Bikepacking in Big Bear.
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- Scott and Rover hiking in the forest.
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- CONGRATULATIONS
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- Riding in Big Bear.
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- Los Padres National Forest Hiking
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- Camping in Big Bear for UnPredict Your Wednesday.
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- Topanga Canyon
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- Quirky or creative or both?
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- Scott 2.1 is doing a lot of wheel builds lately.
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- Meditation and coffee and coffee talk.
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- Steelcut oatmeal breakfast is field nutrition.
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- Morning coffee.
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- Sott on the trail.
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- Breakfast Coffee and Oatmeal. We are encouraging people to remember to be healthy.