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