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