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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- Alexandre having coffee in the morning before the amazing Skyline Drive Trail above Big Bear.
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- Views everywhere.
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- Coffeetime with Latigo Coffee.
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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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- Topanga Canyon
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- Rover relaxing at the shop
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- Los Padres National Forest Hiking
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- California has some great camping places.
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- Bikes and camping and mountains.
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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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- Sott on the trail.
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- Riding in Big Bear.
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- Chris and Rover.
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- Chris waiting for poetry
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- Scott 2.1 in Big Bear Bikepacking and riding
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- Riding in Topanga is ideal right now.
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- A boy and his dog.
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- Camping and riding bikes
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- Rover gets some water from Chris
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- Foraging through the woods. UnPredicting a Wednesday.
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- Morning coffee.
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- Dirk gets a Rocky Mountain. Thomas picks it up for him in every sense.
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- Chcking out the view in the Santa Monica Mountains
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- Scott and Rover hiking in the forest.
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- Rover Shop Dog.
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- Rover is letting Chris know he is hungry.
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- Thomas selfie.
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- The Skyline Drive trail is so much fun.
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- Saturday Morning ride in the Santa Monica Mountains.
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- Camping in Big Bear for UnPredict Your Wednesday.
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- The 3 Muskateers.
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- Our camping spot.
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- Bikepacking in Big Bear.
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- Iceland Hockey Team.
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- Steelcut oatmeal breakfast is field nutrition.
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- The quick ride meant that the backpacks would be OK.
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- Saturday Ride
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- Scott 2.1 brewing up a bit of Latigo Coffee.
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- Chris drinking from his Mellow Velo waterbottle.
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- Topanga on our Saturday Ride
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- CONGRATULATIONS
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- Alexandre is hooked.
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- Thomas
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- Hand laced wheels happening almost every day lately.
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- Directions for Kyle.
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- Peace. It is back. Please .
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- Skyline Trail in Big Bear is such a fun riding place for mountain biking.
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- Chris and Scott on the adventure.
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- Camping on Pine Mountain
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- Chris climbing through the woods on Pine Mountain. Hiking day.
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- Thomas is in town from Germany.
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- Topanga is about peace.
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- Field Nutrition.
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- Meditation and coffee and coffee talk.
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- We were there.
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- 3 More riders in Topanga
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- We encourage healthy eating.
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- Rover chilling at a different spot in the shop.
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- Scott 2.1 is doing a lot of wheel builds lately.
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- THOMAS
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- Nighttime on the mountain.
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- Eating healthy is a great way to start the day. Field Nutrition
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- Day Hike and camping above Ojai
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- Tents, bikes, trails and the forest.
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- Chris at the camping spot in the forest.
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- Tent, Scott and Rover.
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- Grub. Healthy Grub. Field Nutrition.
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- Eat a decent breakfast before a ride and the day is nicer.
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- View before the weekly poetry.
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- Camping on Tuesday before the Wednesday hike.
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- Thomas camping with us on Pine Mountain the day he arrived from Germany.
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- Certificates of accomplishments.
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- Can you find Alexandre?