A group of volunteers from the Red Rock OHV Conservation Crew and Arizona 4×4 Offroad Recovery have successfully recovered a wrecked Nissan Z from Oak Creek Canyon below the Schnebly Hill overlook an estimated 32 years after it plunged down the cliff.
The project began several weeks ago, when volunteers scouted the car’s location and began rigging it for the ride back up the hill. On Thursday, Aug. 3, they were able to move it about halfway up the side of the cliff, and they finished the lift on Monday, Aug. 7.
“We’re working on about a 50-degree slope,” Nena Barlow of Barlow Adventures, who is coordinating the recovery for RROCC, said, adding…