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