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