Lumpy/Bumpy

Allamuchies - so where was I? North Allamuchy? All I know from my file is I rode lumpy bumpy:

https://www.strava.com/activities/460289442

Where should I have turned to not end up at a dead end farm?

And then here, what part of Allamuchy was this - specifically the double blue marked trail - it got really tech up into rock formations, then dropped down into a fairy tale land of green moss and ferns - pretty cool. I dropped off but it kept going - on the map it's the trail directly north of Jefferson lake and starts after that little dead end I hit to the east:

https://www.strava.com/activities/460289441
 
@rick81721 you really can't do north unless you ride with someone who knows.

You were in an area that I didn't even know existed, then you also ran into church property.

Definitely hit me or someone who knows the park to get a full proper.
 
@rick81721 Feel free to hit me up in the future too if you would like. I don't have the years Mattyb and some others have in North, but living here with a green trail entrance at my doorstep I've spent the last few years figuring the place out. The awesome part is that there is practically an unlimited number of potential loops. The unmarked stuff is the best stuff but also the most intimidating to go riding if your not sure where you're going. I've spent a lot of time comparing my strava maps to the jorba map....its almost as much fun as the ride itself. That Jorba map is pretty good btw. It can be a real challenge when the rocks are wet but once you learn the general lay of the land you can definitely pick loops that meet your comfort level based on conditions.
 
double blue? Not sure I know a double blue. That's the beauty of 'mooch north. Been riding there for years and could most likely still get lost if I tried hard enough. In my early days of riding here, I got so lost as to which way was north or south I came upon the same fork in the trails 3 times. I just gave up and headed out and wound up in the Tranquillity side up a bit from the 157Pub towards 206. I knocked on a gentleman's door to ask where in the heck I was only because I was running out of daylight. How were conditions?
 
kidzach said:
double blue? Not sure I know a double blue. That's the beauty of 'mooch north. Been riding there for years and could most likely still get lost if I tried hard enough. In my early days of riding here, I got so lost as to which way was north or south I came upon the same fork in the trails 3 times. I just gave up and headed out and wound up in the Tranquillity side up a bit from the 157Pub towards 206. I knocked on a gentleman's door to ask where in the heck I was only because I was running out of daylight. How were conditions?
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Yeah it's amazing how big that whole area is. A completely different scale compared to parks around here. There was alot of water on the lower trails, but higher was fine. Wet/slick leaves and moss on rocks made some climbing challenging
 
Could someone who knows Lumpy well bring in a can of spray paint and drop some fresh breadcrumbs? I was up there yesterday, and spent a fair bit of time circling on foot trying to figure out where the trial was supposed to go. Enough people have missed turns or shorted across close sections over the years to start wearing in what looks like trail where it shouldn't be. A few of them just keep looping back to the same area.

*Note: It's not that I don't want to do it; it's that I don't want to mark it the wrong way and make things worse.
 
PinchFlat said:
Could someone who knows Lumpy well bring in a can of spray paint and drop some fresh breadcrumbs? I was up there yesterday, and spent a fair bit of time circling on foot trying to figure out where the trial was supposed to go. Enough people have missed turns or shorted across close sections over the years to start wearing in what looks like trail where it shouldn't be. A few of them just keep looping back to the same area.

*Note: It's not that I don't want to do it; it's that I don't want to mark it the wrong way and make things worse.
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There were Pink-ish marks painted on trees and rocks a few years ago. Did you notice anything like that?
 
There are remnants of many of the old marks. Some are faded out, and others are too far apart to indicate which is next on a line vs. visible from a parallel section.
 
PinchFlat said:
There are remnants of many of the old marks. Some are faded out, and others are too far apart to indicate which is next on a line vs. visible from a parallel section.
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Thanks. I'll take a look. Since it was marked I'm not opposed to fixing it up a bit. There are a lot of trails unmarked in north and thats kind of the thing for those. Admittedly lumpy bumpy can be hard to follow, especially at the bottom toward the end.
 
Much obliged. I did like the flow of what I thought the trail route was over the big rock switchbacks, kind of like a more aggressive Rollie Pollie. The alternative is to just treat the whole top area like a skills park, which inevitably leads to people "improving" approaches to things.
 
PinchFlat said:
Much obliged. I did like the flow of what I thought the trail route was over the big rock switchbacks, kind of like a more aggressive Rollie Pollie. The alternative is to just treat the whole top area like a skills park, which inevitably leads to people "improving" approaches to things.
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I took a hike through today and remarked. I didn't have a lot of Flo Pink paint but I had enough to touch up all the missing marks and most faded ones. I'll go back through another time and hit it again with some more paint but you should be able to follow it now.

For anyone looking for this trail FYI the marks on the trail don't start until you are up onto the trail a little. That was on purpose originally to keep quads / motos from seeing the marks and following up onto the trail.
 
Fat Trout said:
I took a hike through today and remarked. I didn't have a lot of Flo Pink paint but I had enough to touch up all the missing marks and most faded ones. I'll go back through another time and hit it again with some more paint but you should be able to follow it now.
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Very cool; thanks for the quick work. I'll check it out again on my next ride.
 
Big improvement on Lumpy; thanks again. It didn't help me clear it, but it gave me great confidence that the correct line was kicking my ass! Pretty sure that stone spiral staircase climb violates some warcrime treaties...
 
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