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Well Sergio (50yj) talked me into another adventure in the great state of Arizona. This time it was an Easter Safari in the Table Mesa area. I asked several folks to join us on the adventure and a small number were able to make the trek to the area. Curtis and his wife, Art (aw12345), and Fred (flatout) made the total to five rigs to hit the trails.
Everyone headed out to the trails on Thursday night with Sharon and I being the very last to show up. Friday morning, we followed our fearless leader Sergio out to the trails. The day was overcast:
The first trail that we hit was Lower Terminator:
The obstacle called White Stripe is a tilty drop that the right line is to follow a white stripe in the dark rock:
The Z-Turn has several options:
Regardless of the lines that we took, the audience on the trail was just not impressed:
The cool thing about the trails that we took on Friday was that there many optional lines to play on. Art, who rarely had any trouble on any line all weekend, found the one spot the was his nemesis:
But a little tire kiss from Mr. Green put his Jeep back on track:
After that, pretty much nothing slowed him down:
Unfortunately, Sergio had a fuel feed issue that slowed him down:
On a different note, Spring has sprung in the sonoran desert!:
On Upper Terminator, the nastiest obstacle that most people bypass was mastered by Art. His first attempt failed:
But his second attempt was spectacular:
It wasn't perfect, but is was amazing. Video will be forthcoming soon...
All of the trails are surrounded by Saguaro cactus. You can't help but notice them, but some are quite interesting:
The crew at the top of Upper Terminator:
Sergio headed back to camp due to the fuel feed issues and Curtis went with him to make sure that he made it. The rest of us ran the short trail called Predator:
After that we headed out to the Tip Top Mine. Along the way we met some of the locals.
Large gopher snake:
Cool colored Gila Monster:
We started at the Tip Top Mine itself:
There's not a lot left, besides the headframe over the shaft and this boiler:
The trail to the mine is rough and steep. This is a shot of us coming back down:
Back in the remains of the ghost town, Art and I climbed the foundations of the mill. Looking back down at Fred and Sharon and the remains of the brewery:
The Tip Top Brewery was the first brewery in Arizona:
To be continued....
Well Sergio (50yj) talked me into another adventure in the great state of Arizona. This time it was an Easter Safari in the Table Mesa area. I asked several folks to join us on the adventure and a small number were able to make the trek to the area. Curtis and his wife, Art (aw12345), and Fred (flatout) made the total to five rigs to hit the trails.
Everyone headed out to the trails on Thursday night with Sharon and I being the very last to show up. Friday morning, we followed our fearless leader Sergio out to the trails. The day was overcast:
The first trail that we hit was Lower Terminator:
The obstacle called White Stripe is a tilty drop that the right line is to follow a white stripe in the dark rock:
The Z-Turn has several options:
Regardless of the lines that we took, the audience on the trail was just not impressed:
The cool thing about the trails that we took on Friday was that there many optional lines to play on. Art, who rarely had any trouble on any line all weekend, found the one spot the was his nemesis:
But a little tire kiss from Mr. Green put his Jeep back on track:
After that, pretty much nothing slowed him down:
Unfortunately, Sergio had a fuel feed issue that slowed him down:
On a different note, Spring has sprung in the sonoran desert!:
On Upper Terminator, the nastiest obstacle that most people bypass was mastered by Art. His first attempt failed:
But his second attempt was spectacular:
It wasn't perfect, but is was amazing. Video will be forthcoming soon...
All of the trails are surrounded by Saguaro cactus. You can't help but notice them, but some are quite interesting:
The crew at the top of Upper Terminator:
Sergio headed back to camp due to the fuel feed issues and Curtis went with him to make sure that he made it. The rest of us ran the short trail called Predator:
After that we headed out to the Tip Top Mine. Along the way we met some of the locals.
Large gopher snake:
Cool colored Gila Monster:
We started at the Tip Top Mine itself:
There's not a lot left, besides the headframe over the shaft and this boiler:
The trail to the mine is rough and steep. This is a shot of us coming back down:
Back in the remains of the ghost town, Art and I climbed the foundations of the mill. Looking back down at Fred and Sharon and the remains of the brewery:
The Tip Top Brewery was the first brewery in Arizona:
To be continued....
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