February 2002 - Asylum
Trail Rating - 5.5
Distance -
Trip Leader: Shane Garrels
Photos submitted by Chris Villarreal
Aerial View
Let's just get this out of the way up front, this is the hardest trail in Arizona. If you don't have a rig that could easily compete in an ARCA level competition I would say you would need at least two solid days to run this trail all the way thru. Big tires and ground clearance are a must. We started heading into the trail at 8am and agreed to start heading back out by 1pm to get out before dark. 12:30pm rolled around and we were only 1/4 of the way to the waterfall! We walked the rest of the trail, I wouldn't want to have to come back down some of the stuff we saw. I think we all agreed that we really hadn't run any of the main obstacles on this trail, all these pictures are from the easy stuff.
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First up is this notch, that boulder in the middle down to the ground is about 5 feet! Erik took the difficult line, hugging the wall.
With the new tires I am not wide enough to take Erik's line.
Pat coming thru the notch.