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