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