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