March 2002 - Lower Terminator 

Trail Rating - 3.5

Trip Leader: Jack Adams

Photos submitted by Chris Villarreal

This trail was the start of the 2002 AZ Rockfest, a small get together of a local rock crawlers and an out of state guest.  We setup camp on Friday night just as the sun went down and planned on running a few trails to get the first night run of the year in.  Mark Quisenberry drove all the way from Oklahoma to experience some of Arizona's best trails.  He arrived shortly after 7:30 and originally planned to head into town to check into a hotel and gather some supplies for the weekend.  When he heard we were getting ready to hit some trails that night he unloaded his rig and was ready to go!

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Mark's Zuk was pretty well setup with Dana 44's, coils in the rear, springs up front, hydraulic steering assist, lockers, gears, exo cage and plenty of tools and spare parts (which would come in handy over the next two days).  We introduced him to Lower Terminator in the dark, no longer a really hard trail but still a good warm up.  He ran white line with no spotting and quickly got his heart up to speed with a little wheels in the air action :)  The above pictures are from the S curve, he took the hard line out like everyone else did.

Mark almost had the line but pivoted onto his gas tank skid at the last moment.  We ended up strapping him off the rocks, finished the rest of the trail and headed off to Predator.