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