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