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