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