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