Kittatinny Valley State Park Conditions
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mtn
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Which trails should be prioritized specifically? preferrably ones that aren’t too long and have those elevated trees you speak of.
If I mention a trail with work done on it, will some strong abled person be able to push the logs out of the way? I don’t have a peavy unfortunately
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Thor350Z
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honestly tough to say, I couldn’t get more than a couple hundred feet into many trails within the park before I came across something substantial.
mtn
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Rode a bunch of trails today. Great job on getting trails open. My wife and the NICA team did a hike and bike up Nemo. Over Presidents weekend the Warren/Sussex County NICA teams want to do some trail clean up going up Nemo. I will keep the board updated on what does we are going to being there.
We also have a NJ state forestry employee on our coaching staff. So operating a chainsaw for us will be a plus.
We also have a NJ state forestry employee on our coaching staff. So operating a chainsaw for us will be a plus.
mtn
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How bad was that trail? Now that the kvsp employees are done clearing all the rail trails (pipeline trails) as of wednesday, they will be starting to clear trails. Seems to me like it’s feasible to clear a couple trails a day per two man crew. Maybe the side to the east of goodale rd isn’t as bad as the west.
I did not climb up to the cell tower with them, but was told it was a lot of hiking around stuff. Between road and the lake the trails are really starting to open up. I really just started riding there this year so I do not know the labels for all the trails yet. Between the lot and the airport is really open. The blue and red in that area only has a couple more trees down, but all stuff 8” and down is clear.
I never realized how much fun KVSP is to ride. For the team we ride mostly at KVSP and Stephens.
mtn
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Blue and red trails are clear from the 206 lot by njffs all the way to the park office. Though apparently there is a red connector from the yellow trail to the park office that has not been cleared. I’ve never been on the white or black trails so I’m interested what they are like.
mtn
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Don't bother bringing the silky saw unless you maybe want to clear up unmarked trails or the intersection of red and yellow next to the gravel road (hemlock trail i think). Currently you are required to dismount and duck.
Also don’t go down yellow from the cell tower. I have yet to finish that mess.
everything else is wide open.
pygmypony
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rode KVSP today and we had a BLAST!!! i can't imagine the shape the park was in after whatever it was that hit it (was it a microburst? it looks like a weed whacker lopped off the tops of those huge trees)
and of course, i didn't see this message until just now, so we did ride yellow down from the cell tower (fun trail by the way!)...it wasn't too hard to hike-a-bike around the last of the mess...
thanks for all of the hard work there! totally worth the 1 hour drive from edison!
Fat Trout
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Wet snow and ice did the damage
mtn
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If someone who doesn’t need to make a two hour round trip to go there can possibly finish “mopping up” the bottom of yellow coming down from the cell tower, that’d be great. There is a path through now, but someone with loppers and a hand saw can make it all nice. There are still two Trees lying on the ground there but they are split so even with an axe it wouldn’t be too bad. But for now just don’t go hauling butt down yellow as you’ll probably crash and burn.