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