Jungo Road <- Not the Usual Question

[Schwarttzy]

Last year my brother and I went to Burning Man and had some time to kill and figured that we should take Jungo Road. Being an avid enthusiast of driving off-road, and having driven the road now, I thought the short cut was well worth it. I drove the road relative fast with no problems, and saved four hours of driving by my estimates. Saw beautiful sights, ran across a group of guys that were pedaling bikes from New York to Burning Man that day. Felt a little bit weird/scared coming up on the mine but it was all part of the adventure. Neat part about the biking guys, was that my brother and I helped one of them to there camp much later that night, which was really fun. He was at the egg shaped dome with the slide on the outside, it was located on esplanade and I think 2:30.

Anyway, this year I was hoping to cut across playa and drive south on state rout 34 to get to BM so that I don't have to add any more traffic to Gerlach, and hopefully save a bit of gas for the environment not sitting in traffic. However, I'm hesitant to cross Playa behind BM without some additional information beforehand.

How far north should I go to... well, not brake any rules or something? Is there some rules I should be aware of? Should I mention something to the rangers?

Anyway, thanks for your help!

[some seeing eye]

There is a legal BLM playa closure zone, and you have to get outside the trash fence, check with gate and perimeter.

[Elliot]

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Click on the BLM Closure Order Map:

http://www.burningman.com/preparation/b ... gFZn6y0TFw

This opens a PDF map. The zigzagging brown line is the closure zone. You would need to stay north of that. This would make you a regular US citizen enjoying your public lands.

When coming down 34, do not take the first entrance you see -- that's a service gate.

Have a safe trip!

[Cactus Pete]

Schwarttzy that's awesome!
Those two guys were my camp-mates Ray and Eli and they actually biked all the way from Boston.
Awesome to hear you ran into them on the Jungo.

AutoSub is at 8:30 this year, come by, say hi and try out that slide!

Sorry to threadjack. btw.

[Schwarttzy]

Schwarttzy that's awesome!
Those two guys were my camp-mates Ray and Eli and they actually biked all the way from Boston.
Awesome to hear you ran into them on the Jungo.

AutoSub is at 8:30 this year, come by, say hi and try out that slide!

Sorry to threadjack. btw.

Hey no worries, I was hoping some body would chime in. LOL some of the details got mixed up in my head, but it was Eli that we helped find the camp. I'll be sure to stop by some time.

[Savannah]

Your avatar has swagger, Schwarttzy!

[Schwarttzy]

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Click on the BLM Closure Order Map:

http://www.burningman.com/preparation/b ... gFZn6y0TFw

This opens a PDF map. The zigzagging brown line is the closure zone. You would need to stay north of that. This would make you a regular US citizen enjoying your public lands.

When coming down 34, do not take the first entrance you see -- that's a service gate.

Have a safe trip!

WOW! Thank you so much. That is exactly what I was looking for. Now I can completely bypass Gerlach, and have a blast... blasting across Playa this year.

[Schwarttzy]

Your avatar has swagger, Schwarttzy!

LOL, ya it does. My brother, sister, and I were having a blast dancing at Distrikt when that photo was taken. The guy in the robe and sun glasses is my little-bigger brother. He's a monster at 6'7" 275lb., however I'm the older responsible one.

[Elliot]

I recommend staying WELL north -- to keep me from getting itchy on the trigger finger. Seriously, any traffic within binocular-range raises the blood pressures of several GP&E volunteers you never hear of. So... we appreciate your courtesy in not approaching the Closure Zone unnecessarily. Now start packing your supplies!

[Schwarttzy]

Seeing as you guys were so proactive of helping me, I thought I should share a few photo's I took along the way.

[Savannah]

Beautiful!

I wish that the one time I traveled Jungo Road it hadn't been at night.

[Eric]

Wow - stunning photos!

[Schwarttzy]

I recommend staying WELL north -- to keep me from getting itchy on the trigger finger. Seriously, any traffic within binocular-range raises the blood pressures of several GP&E volunteers you never hear of. So... we appreciate your courtesy in not approaching the Closure Zone unnecessarily. Now start packing your supplies!

From comparing the map you linked and using google maps I'll be around 10 miles north of BM, 13 at max.

[Schwarttzy]

Beautiful!

I wish that the one time I traveled Jungo Road it hadn't been at night.

At was fun too, so many Jack Rabbits, couldn't believe it. This desert has more life in then I would have thought of.

Wow - stunning photos!

Makes me happy to have shared them.

[TT120]

There are also petroglyphs up on the side of some of those bluffs from the Indian population that lived out there 1000 or so years ago. I love the desert!

[Schwarttzy]

There are also petroglyphs up on the side of some of those bluffs from the Indian population that lived out there 1000 or so years ago. I love the desert!

I would love to stop and get a photo of those, unless it is something I'm not suppose to go to. Do you have an idea how I would find them?

[TT120]

I don't know the exact locations, I would have to go ride my bike out there again to remember where I saw them. I do know there are some pretty easy ones to find along the east side of dry lake Winnemucca just to the south of the Black Rock Playa.

[Elliot]

From comparing the map you linked and using google maps I'll be around 10 miles north of BM, 13 at max.

That should be safely out of range of our artillery.
Nice pictures indeed!

[Savannah]

Beautiful!

I wish that the one time I traveled Jungo Road it hadn't been at night.

At was fun too, so many Jack Rabbits, couldn't believe it. This desert has more life in then I would have thought of.

NO JOKE.

My friend Tonya and I took Jungo Road in a 4 door sedan one pitch black night in 2001. It looked shorter on the map. But we had to go slow, and we couldn't see the beauty of the place, just the blackness and the claustrophobic, creeping shrubs . . .

136 rabbits attempted suicide in front of the vehicle. The worst one cut in front of us, made it almost the whole way across!--then doubled back the way he came (NOOOOOO!!!!!) and finally ran ahead of us like some god-awful tiny pace vehicle on a racetrack. (He lived). . . . Being very young at the time, we were screaming as if in a horror movie. We'll never found any evidence of it, but believe that we may have struck rabbits 101, 102 and 103.

When I later told my friend Leslie about rabbits 101-103, she screamed "No! NOT THE JOHNSONS."

[ygmir]

there is some great rock hunting off that road around Sulphur and Rosebud canyon.

[Oldguy]

Love the map and the pictures, thank you. I notice Playa elevation is 1108' to 1120'. I thought we were higher, but at 110F density altitude will thin the air some.

[Elliot]

Pretty sure the Playa is close to 4000 feet.

[Jackass]

Love the map and the pictures, thank you. I notice Playa elevation is 1108' to 1120'. I thought we were higher, but at 110F density altitude will thin the air some.

I think you're reading that in meters, Gerlach sits at 3,946 ft or 1203 meters

[Schwarttzy]

NO JOKE.

My friend Tonya and I took Jungo Road in a 4 door sedan one pitch black night in 2001. It looked shorter on the map. But we had to go slow, and we couldn't see the beauty of the place, just the blackness and the claustrophobic, creeping shrubs . . .

136 rabbits attempted suicide in front of the vehicle. The worst one cut in front of us, made it almost the whole way across!--then doubled back the way he came (NOOOOOO!!!!!) and finally ran ahead of us like some god-awful tiny pace vehicle on a racetrack. (He lived). . . . Being very young at the time, we were screaming as if in a horror movie. We'll never found any evidence of it, but believe that we may have struck rabbits 101, 102 and 103.

When I later told my friend Leslie about rabbits 101-103, she screamed "No! NOT THE JOHNSONS."

I must have been very lucky, or the rabbits were afraid of my Hummer, because none dared to cross my path.

[Schwarttzy]

Love the map and the pictures, thank you. I notice Playa elevation is 1108' to 1120'. I thought we were higher, but at 110F density altitude will thin the air some.

Playa is high desert, no way it is that low, must be in meters.

[Schwarttzy]

Seeing as the last pictures went over so well thought I would post another of me in celebration of the first sighting of BM. Well, the dust cloud that held BM with in it.

[Savannah]

Hee. Nice to meet you!

[Schwarttzy]

Hee. Nice to meet you!

Well, thanks, always been a fan of your posts on here.

[Savannah]

Hee. Nice to meet you!

Well, thanks, always been a fan of your posts on here.

Thank you!

[Schwarttzy]

Hmm. Been studying the map, and it seems that It maybe better to cross over Playa to the south, because of the very few entrances up north of it. I would rather go north, but just seems like a bad idea... maybe I will roll through Gerlach. Decisions, Decisions.

Could always have the map in hand to show someone if I were to get hassled crossing a solid 3.5 miles south of the restricted area for BM.