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Let’s See Your Best Shot!
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We’re building out the new spring newsletter and we need your best shot! Send us pics of you & your crew riding your favorite trails or doing trail maintenance in New Jersey and you might just end up on the cover of the next newsletter!
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Round Valley Comes Alive!
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In what we hope to be a new & lasting iteration of JORBA’s presence at Round Valley, we have begun efforts to get the park into amore user-friendly state.
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The Sterling Trail System is Expanding – We Need Your Help
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The JORBA Chapter is Funding a New MTB Trail in Sterling Forest Did you know that Palisades MTB is a chapter of both IMBA and JORBA? Well, they are!…
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CR/WVP Updates: Ida-Over, High Tech Support, & Yellow Tweaks
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Improvements on blue, white, and yellow have been creeping in over the past few weeks. Read the full article to see what’s been going on at The Rock, the start of Monday rides, and to sign up for future CR-specific TM days.
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2022 Trail Maintenance, Stephens State Park
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Hello to the Stephens State Park users and enthusiastic fresh air doers! Below is a tentative J.O.R.B.A. Trail Maintenance Schedule for Stephens State Park for 2022. The effort this…
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Tourne Trail Build March 20
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Sunday March 20, 2022 9:00 a.m. We have a few exciting Tourne trail projects in the works for 2022. To start, MCPC just gave us the green light to…
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Don’t Drop OTB (Off the Back)!
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Get the latest news, updates, alerts, carrier pigeons, trail builds, and other assorted New Jersey bike-related information by signing up for our FREE newsletter.
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Palisades MTB Spring Update
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Trail building training starts this March in Sterling Forest. (See below) Completion of the Upper Dwarskill Crossing in Alpine, NJ. Continuing our work on Augusta Mine in Sterling Forest….
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Allamuchy Trail Crew Tentative Trail Maintenance Schedule 2022
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Location TBD, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Click the links below for more details or to volunteer. Sunday March 27th Saturday April 23rd Saturday May 14th Saturday June 25th…
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A Note from the Executive Director
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As spring and the 2022 peak riding season approaches, I am always reminded of the amazing work that JORBA volunteers have accomplished. Over the past year we have logged a tremendous amount of trail work hours, with both maintenance and new projects covering every region of the state. We’ve strengthened partnerships with fellow stakeholders and…
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Black Run Preserve Poker Run
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Come out and experience some of South Jersey’s JORBA work, which is part of the (JAR) Jersey Action Riders/Cherry Hill Chapter. Click the link for more details.
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JORBA Board Meeting Summary
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Following our bylaws, we held our annual votes for officers and board members, here are the folks that will continue to make the JORBA machine run.
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New Executive Committee Members
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The EC has voted in two new members, please welcome William Romollino and Norm Zurawski. We look forward to working with them.
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BoB Yak Trailer Donation
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Jorba supporters Ron and Mari Striegel of West Milford have donated a brand new BoB Yak trailer to JORBA. If your group could put this to good use for…
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2022 Somerset County Parks Trail Work Days Announced
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The Somerset County Park Commission has published their “Volunteer Park Patrol” schedule for 2022. JORBA and the Park Rangers partner closely on trail maintenance projects and all are welcome…
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Sourland Mountain Preserve Park Report 2021
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2021 was a slower than normal year for trail work at the Sourlands due to the on-going pandemic, but also because all of the good sustainable work put in…
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Essex County Chapter
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JORBA has established a new chapter to advocate for mountain biking in Essex County. Gene Sackman will lead efforts for legal MTB access. Please visit our Essex County Chapter…
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JORBA Officer Elections 2022
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Tom HenniganPresident, Chairman Ken SeebeckExecutive Director, CEO Dave ClarkTreasurer Jason FletcherSecretary Mike ConfentiVice President Board Members and Staff
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Trail Planning and Design Hub
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Our colleagues at American Trails have put together a list of resources for trail planning and design. Please check it out.
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Wildcat Ridge WMA Chapter Report 2021
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The Wildcat Ridge WMA chapter of JORBA remains active. In 2020-2021 there was a joint effort with the NYNJTC to replace a dilapidated bridge across a brook within the…
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Dickerson Mine Trail Review 2021
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98 hours Jeremy Klopper took Jason Goncalves slot as Co-Lead earlier this year.Jeremy lives in Randolph and can be spotted on the trails either locally or further away as…
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Allamuchy Trail Review 2021
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268 hours Completed 4 Bump Alt. – Lumpy Bumpy re-route Rock armored wet sections of ‘Unblazed’ Trail on way up to 4 Bump Heavy tree removal throughout the year…