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