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