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