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