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