Thanks to everyone who showed up to lend a hand for the trail cleanup. In addition to picking up any trash encountered on the trails (which wasn't much), Annihilator, Collateral Damage, and Terminator were partially restored to their original difficulty. In addition, the oil spots on Annihilator were also cleaned up.  Here's a few pictures my wife took during the event, if you took any you would like to see posted here forward them to chris@azrockcrawler.com. 

Everybody gathering at camp on Saturday morning.

Our club lead the Collateral Damage restoration.  We started by digging out the first 3 hot tubs at the beginning of the trail.  After several hours of digging we made a good dent in the accumulated sand but the obstacle is still far away from how hard it used to be. After a lot of digging we decided to try using the buggies to loosen the sand, here's a video clip of Jack doing his best excavator impression.

The first picture shows the top hot tub, we took it down a few feet so it is harder to navigate again. The second pictures shows the same spot back in 03.  As you can see it was a solid rock bowl.

About mid trail we also restored the hole at the base of the large fall.  This one got filled in thru mostly natural erosion.

Lastly we removed the stacked rocks at the base of the fall on the upper section, this made a nice undercut at the base . It took me a few tries to find a line that worked.  Since there is now a good undercut you need to start further towards the drivers side to avoid contact with the ledge. On my first attempt I hit pretty hard with the rear lower link, putting a slight bow into the solid 2" diameter 7075 link. Here's a video clip of the line that worked for me. Pat ended up crawling the bypass, here's a video clip of his run up the rocks.

Jay was up next, he almost made it a few times as he felt the obstacle out (video clip). By giving it just a little more gas and staying in it he makes the climb it in this video clip.