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