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