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