Jungle Habitat Conditions

all trails are clear and not wet except a couple small spots. (Didnt ride Baboon or Goat though) Very leafy though which was tricky in spots. They're slippery and hiding the rocks.
 
Yesterday I went out to Dump Truck hill. The yellow headed down the hill had some downed trees and I moved what I could but you really need a saw. Once to the bottom and onto the dump truck loop things were really in bad shape. I cleared as much as I could but destroyed my gloves (note to self - throw a pair of work gloves in the camelback). It looks like nobody has been on the trail at all and it was actually hard to stay on the trail because there was so much down. Riding clockwise - right before the last rock feature there is ahuge tree down which will require a reroute or a chainsaw. OMG!!. I cannot believe what the pipeline guys did though. It is like a hideous scar right down the middle of the mountain. Why is the cut so wide?. I am going back up there to take pictures to show the Bergen County folks who hate mountain bikers and prohibit us from the trails along the Ramapo mountains. Really guys? My 2.35 inch tires damage the environment and trails????. Give me a break. Anyway, back to the subject - everything other than dump truck (btw where is he truck?) was in excellent shape. Lower chute, baboon, fish, etc. Any update on Rhino?. Still closed?
 
Dump Truck was technically closed due to the pipeline construction. I didnt ride it on saturday bc i figured it was still closed. The dump truck disappeared after the pipeline was cut. I agree it seems a bit excessive to cut it that wide.
 
I had heard it was closed too, but nothing was posted or marked closed and pipeline work there is definitely complete.
 
I rode here for the first time today. It was wet and cold but it was fun. I rode Animal Chute the Upper and Lower and Rat Tail. Thats all the trails I could find easily.

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Lower Animal Chute was sort of a creek.

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Yeah, lower chute doesn't do well in the rain.

I'm attaching my current map. I'm working on the new one.

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Where is "Rat Tail"? I dont see it on the map. I've only ridden JH a handful of times but have only stuck to the perimeter trails. Is it one of those short ones in the middle by Tunnels?
 
gmb3 said:
Where is "Rat Tail"? I dont see it on the map. I've only ridden JH a handful of times but have only stuck to the perimeter trails. Is it one of those short ones in the middle by Tunnels?
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Facing the entrance to the tunnels from the parking lot perspective its the trail to the right, if you ride along the parking lot to the right you will see it. Fairly short trail.
 
gmb3 said:
Where is "Rat Tail"? I dont see it on the map. I've only ridden JH a handful of times but have only stuck to the perimeter trails. Is it one of those short ones in the middle by Tunnels?
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Yeah, just south of the tunnels 50' or so, it's really just a singletrack shortcut.

We'll be adding more signs, a new map and some other little enhancements to make it easier to find your way around.
 
gfisher270 said:
what are some good trails to go on? either tomorrow or friday i want to try and ride most of them.
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All the trails on the top of the ridgeline(otter, cages, goat and fish look at the map on the jorba site for more info, the ridgeline should be obvious on the contour map) are great, tight(very tight, barely barlength in some spots), rocky and drain amazingly well. You can ride the majority of them in a downpour and not have a slopfest, really the most of JH is this way with the exception of Warthog and Lower chute. btw, you can do the majority of the trails there and keep the loop to 10 to 12 miles.
 
gfisher270 said:
what are some good trails to go on? either tomorrow or friday i want to try and ride most of them.
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Take a tour, enter the gate, make left at opening in fence and make immediate right onto Animal Shute, right up it exits on a road bear right, right along tree line on right and just before the crest of a short hill make a right onto Warthog (tail end). Continue on the white blazed Warthog until you exit through a fence onto a paved path, approx 2.5 miles. Wathog winds around the perimeter of the parking lot. Bear right on the paved path and make the next right, you will pass the Otter Slide on the left then you will see an orange blaze indicating the start of the Otter Slide trail. Follow otter slide as it switches back up the hill, near the top you will come to a boulder bear right onto Rhino, Watch for hunters, as a matter of fact I would only ride Rhino on Sundays when there's no hunting, Rhino has occasional Orange and White blazes. After about a mile Rhino will dump you back onto the top of otter slide. Continue following the orange blazes onto Tanks, Tanks will pass through a fence and bear right at the cage onto cages as it crosses a quad trail. Cages twist around through a field and over a rock ridge crossing the same quad trail and eventually dumping out onto a road. Straight across the road is the entrance to Tiger Pen. Continue through tiger pen untill you ride over 8 cinder blocks and through a fence to Tigerfish rocks. This is the main intersection at the top of Jungle. Immediately towards your laft and along the fenceline is goat. Don't take that. Continuing with the orange blazes straightish is Fish. Bearing towards the right and through the fence with the sheetmetal on it is the start of the brand new trail Boon.

Here you have a choice, continue on fish, a tight twisty trail along the ridge until it ends at the yellow blazed Hippo trail. Or bear right through the fence and make a quick right and left on the road to get to Boon. Boon isn't blazed yet, but climb it to the top and then back down as it parallels fish on the opposite side of the road. Boon features several technical rock sections and some you won't find. Boon exits onto the powerlines where you bear left cross the road and drop into the yellow blazed trail on the left. Ride this back to the intersection with fish.

From fish make a left onto the yellow blazed Hippo trail, from Boon continue straight on the yellow blazed Hippo trail. A couple of quick switchbacks and quick rocky descent and climb will pop you through another fence, Follow the yellow blazes as Hippo switches back and forth to the road, Bear left pass a sinkhole in the road and make an immediate right onto lower chute. Ride lower chute back to the fence cut where you started.

Got that?

I'll probably be out there several times this weekend, PM me if you want a tour.
 
jimf said:
You can ride the majority of them in a downpour and not have a slopfest, really the most of JH is this way with the exception of Warthog and Lower chute.
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To avoid the slopfest that is lower chute take Skunk 358 to cross the parking lot. Skunk is on the north side and it exits onto the lot. ride across the lot and look for the yellow sign to cut back onto warthog at a switchback.
 
I'm going to ride Jungle soon. The weather today is awesome. Can't wait to ride.

Today I rode Upper Animal Shute and Warthog. Warthog is long a super fun. I wasn't sure where to go after that so I went left and it brought me to the open lot where I rode Animal Shute back down. Trails were dry for the most part. There are some spots with some pretty deep mud.
 
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