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