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