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