Shain, Randy and the crews from West Texas Offroad and Baertrax made their annual pilgrimage to Moab, Utah for the 41st Annual Easter Jeep Safari. A couple of Katemcy regulars, Brain Purkerson and Kevin Johnson, brought their Rubicons and joined the fun for a few days. Duane Smith and Claudia Crow for Get Bent! videos showed up with cameras the day we hit 'Behind the Rocks' and, hopefully, got some good footage for another top notch DVD!

Earlier in the week on Hell's Revenge, Kenneth Wright showed us how to roll on your lid in one of the hot tubs, Toby Harrell showed us how to nearly lose it and toast your rig (as he did 2 years earlier) in the big hot tub, and we spied one of Jeep's new JK concept trucks out wheeling [top pic]. Russ and Christy Baer invited us along on the Crawl Magazine media run where we had a good time hanging out with the Klein family (www.we-rock.cc) and some of the W.E. Rock and U.R.O.C. teams. Randy, Shain and Russ played on Upper Hellderado and Shain managed to take the worst line [bottom pic]. This was another week that just blazed by too fast with great four wheeling, fun and friends.

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This year's annual Toyota Land Cruiser event was another huge success with over 70 rigs, multiple vendors, the FC Cruiser Team, and the best damn band in country music...the John D. Hale Band!! The weather was great and tons of folks showed up. This year the landcruiser crowd may have set a Katemcy record with cruisers from 17 different states from Oregon to Florida! The Oregon boys from Metal Tech 4x4 trailered from Portland, toasted a trailer in Utah, bought a new trailer, and kept driving to Texas. And they vowed to do it again next year! (well maybe not the trailer buying part). Check out some of their photos at HERE. A host of other photos are on the net on sites such as the LSLC site and Pirate 4x4. And no, I didn't roll over on the start of waterfall trail on purpose. The ever-so-kind land cruiser crowd wouldn't pull me back over until they all wasted a half a roll of film taking pictures of my rig to post on land cruiser sites : ) Doc Troutman kept with tradition and did his annual 'dance' during the concert Friday night. Scary! I'm afraid to see what next year brings. Great event and great folks! Look for a full story in Toyota Trails. We're ready for the next one!!

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Check out this video from the FJCruiser team: VIDEO LINK

- Shain Chapman