Jonkers Elliote Trail Run

Our trail grading: ORANGE 6A

Distance: 16.4km

Extremeness: Five technical single tracks

Location: Jonkershoek, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Joggers: Corrie Erasmus, Deryck Nel & me

During today's jog we did five of our favourite Jonkershoek single tracks. We started with what we call the "peaceful" single track and then climbed further with part 2 & 3 of the Canary MTB trail. We then took the contour jeep track to the start of the Elliote MTB trail, which was only re-opened a number of weeks go. This was the first time I jogged the entire Elliote and it was really awesome. After linking up with the Jonkers circle route for a few hundred meters, we turned onto the technical (and fairly wet) single track in the middle of Jonkershoek. We finished the extreme jog with the Tedea single track...

Corrie on the peaceful single track

Corrie on the Canary single track

Typical unpredictable Jonkershoek weather

An eerie section of the route

Deryck on the Elliote trail