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