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