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