May 2003 - Table Mesa - Page 2

Originally we wanted to run a small group thru Twisted but upon arriving there we found a couple Jeeps blocking the trail at the first waterfall.  It looked like they would be a while, one of them had some broken steering gear so we turned the group around and headed for Terminator.  About half the group went up Lower and Upper Terminator while the other half hit Anaconda first, then looped back to run the Terminators.

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Larry was in the lead for the Anaconda group.  He made it up the big notch but laid his Toyota on its side at the top.  I am guessing the extra weight of the passengers threw him off since he made the same line with everyone out of the rig.

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A couple of the guys coming up the first notch.

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Waterfall after the first exit.

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Pat was letting our visitor drive his rig.

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Our group then ran thru the Terminators, these two shots are from Upper Terminator, same obstacle.  Some of the guys from the first group were here doing some trail repairs (bent spring and broken axle).

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We made it over to Annihilator just in time to see some of the guys start climbing the falls. 

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Mark coming up the second fall.  There was still a line of rigs waiting to attempt the first fall and a Jeep with a bad transmission being hauled out of the chute so a few of us decided to call it a day (it was around 2:30).  As a side note be sure to bring extra water along now that the heat of summer is upon us.  During the winter I would drink two or three 12 oz waters per trip.  This trip I consumed 8 bottles of water, a soda and 1.5 bottles of Powerade.  By 2pm I was down to one bottle of water.