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