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