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