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