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