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