Things you won't see in the magazine:

1. John Reynolds, in front of the WOLF on the trail doing 10 miles per hour and turning around IN THE TRAIL and coming back past us with a smile on his face. Full hydro rear steer, full hydro front steer. We tried turning around in the same place and it took me 3 backups and three gear changes. Sheesh.

2. Toby Lavender backing ALL the way up the Raptor in camp after the competition was over. Top of the Raptor is 7 feet in the air, and Toby's tire was on the top of his cage. Front tires were on the ground.

3. An unnamed judge going up...up..up and over the Raptor on the Mini Rubicon without spilling a drop of his pop on the way over. All the fellow competitors and judges tipped him back over and he continued merrily along again.

4. Pat Germillion (of Premier Power Welder Fame) in his BRAND new Front and rear IFS Hummer diff/geared hub two seater (front to back) tube buggy walking over all the same terrain we competed on and struggled with. 35" tires and hardly any flex, and it could do things that no other truck there could. Unbelievable engineering.

5. Jumping out of the back of Jim Piatt's truck about a minute before he flopped it on it's side in the rubicon. Poor Jim is in a club and has to run his sticker upside down now for a YEAR. Seems that's the penalty for flopping your truck.

6. An impromtu STACK of all 10 TOP TRUCK Challengers in Camp after the competition. Likely won't make the magazine, but look for someone to post it online.

7. A second STACK, this time with judges trucks included, with the poor WOLF at the bottom of all the other trucks. It made a good base.

8. Cory and Ryeguy having a tug of war in camp on Thursday night after the competition and with the judges and competitors all cheering them on, pulling to a fair tie. result: Broken 35 spline axle on the Chevy, and some badly bent links on the Hulk.

9. Toby's face when he opened the shower on Friday morning and found a pig in the stall, compliments of the Vancouver boys.

10. John (Bronco) and Barry (Frog) both looking like they just finished a fine 18 holes at the country club each morning, while the rest of us stumbled out of our campers in our clothes from three days before, covered in mud and poison oak.

11. Toby's 11 year old kid coming up swinging after "someone" tipped his chair over by the fire. Don't mess with Texas.

12. Me, while doing the interview after each competition, trying desperately to not talk with a Texas accent after being around Toby and Matt all week. It seems that Texan's are just excited Canadians.

13. Toby and Matt saying "what y'all doing, Eh?" by the end of the week.

ROFLMAO.....sounds like lots of good friends were made!

Tim, I think now you know why some of my best friends all live in Texas!!!! Thanks alot now, I think I best go reserve a plane ticket, I miss that humid hot air of theirs!!

Sounds like a great time had by all! Great to see excellent Canadian representation.

I think it time to invite the 4 Wheel & Offroad staff to Calgary for a mud run!

haha man thats killer... a pig? hahah
theres a texas student going to my high school... and "what y'all doing, Eh?" is heard quite often.. and laughed at quite often

About the staff coming up here... I have talked to them in the past and they wanted airfare and crap or hotels and stuff... it was bullshit, so i said whatever.

Some day if they want to pay their own way, it would be awesome to have them up here.

Deejay

Congrates Tim,
So how do our trails compare to the Tank trap and others you ran down there.

Well, I would compare the Tank Trap to Killer Cutline, but you
d have to add 4-5 ft deep water holes every 50 yards, and a 50 ft vertical rock wall along one side. Oh, and you have to drive up the whole thing in the big rut. It was hard.

The crappy thing about it is IF my truck had been running even 80%, I think we could have smoked it. I had no bodywork to damage (unlike Corey, whose side of his truck took a beating), so I just ran the cage along the wall. We were over on a pretty good angle.

As I've said to a few others who I've talked to, the biggest difference for me is that I don't run trails at high speed, just crawl along. This was a RACE. You had to motor up these things on the throttle. That took some getting used to and I made a few mistakes along the way.

The hill climb was steep, but doable. The mini rubicon was sick. I still can't tell you how to do it.

Ask Corey, he smoked it. Was fun watching that big stepside motor through there and wow the rock crawling crowd.

What y'all doing, eh? Thats great, I'm speaking such butchered english anymore, I might as well talk like that. ( 22 yrs of Canadian, work in Wyoming for a company who mainly employs okies and texans, pretend I live in Colorado.) I have managed to learn some Canadian into those folks down here though. Decal is pronounced deecal, yet my friend from Kansas now seems to say Decal in every trail, or club meeting, much to the confusion of the rest of the Americans in the room.