Awesome event

[rolloverBill]

For those of you that looked at the weather forecast for the weekend and decided on other plans, you have all missed out!!! Sure Friday was windy and rainy but Saturday made up for it by a longshot. On behalf of the U4WDA, I would like to thank Craig and his family for putting on this event and supporting us in all that we believe in. Millard Co. has put together a nice park with the help of the Notch Peak Desert Dogs. This was really a great expirence and I'm glad to see some of the people that I haven't seen in a long time come out and just laugh at the silly mistakes that they made. (You know who you are T.A.) :rofl:

[rockreligious]

Agreed, If you didnt come out, You missed out. It was a blast. Thanks to all that made this happen, and congrats to carl, carl, carl, Team Bird, Sexton, and the rest of the guys that placed.

[notajeep]

This event was a blast!!! For my first comp, it was fun well organised with no pressure or egos. Thanks Craig! You and your family put on a great event, I cant wait to get a new Irok and come down again.
Dan

[rock4fun]

This event was the funnest thing that I have done in my crawler for a long time. To those hew did not make it you really did miss out on the chance to compete in a fun no pressure or ego event. All hew showed up were fun to be there with and all had a blast.Tanks craig for giving the average joe to compete and thanks to all hew made this happen. Lets do again .

[gravesdiggerxj]

THANKS CRAIG! :D

Man you put together an incredible event! The organization was phenomenal!

This event was a first for Karl and I and we had a great time. Thanks to everyone who competed and thanks to everyone who put it together, Millard county, U4WDA, Notch Peak Desert Dogs, Crawl Magazine, Maxxis, and everyone else.

We did even expect to finish much less place and we are glad we had a venue for the average guy to be competitive in.

Everyone was super nice and it was a good atmosphere to compete in when everyone wanted everyone to do well!

We need more events like this!

-Stratton

[chadschoon]

all I can say is holy cow. that has got to be the funnest thing ive ever done. Im so glad I chose this over moab. craig you did a fine job. thanks for running me to your house to grab your welder as well. thanks millard county. Now lets see some pics. (I didnt get any)

[dustybronco]

this is all I can squeeze out of my lovely bride at the moment. I will post more later

http://www.sextonoffroad.com/home/images/delta%20may%202008/DSCF0072.JPG

[I Lean]

Awwww, what a cute couple! :D

I'll echo what was said above, this was a ton of fun, reminded me why I got hooked on competitive crawling back in the day.

Plus, this had to set some kind of record for participation from drivers named Carl. (and Karl) :cool:

[BCGPER]

Here's another teaser, for those who missed out.

[jet_aj]

I agree. I made it for the saturday event and I must admit, It was a hell of a lot better than working on my jeep all day (my other option).

Craig, you guys put on an awesome show. PM me your Address so I can send you the Video I shot.

I'll post up a couple clips in the next few days after I have a chance to work on it.

[Craig S]

Thanks for all the support from you guys at the event. It was cool to see all of the rigs on the rocks and the teams having fun. Some of the courses were really hard and you guys handled them well. Rock crawling comps are one of my favorite things to do. It's a lot of work and stress, but when a good group of competitors show up, it's worth it!


I have included a list of the winners below:

Street Stock
1. Robby Flandro
2. Carl Whitmore
3. Karl Bringhurst

Legend Class
1. Jared Hansen
2. Steve Crabtree
3. Rick Hopkins

Unlimited
1. Carl Nelson
2. Dan Cressel
3. Rawlin Mcguie


Crawling is cool,
Craig

[Tacoma]

So there will be another one next year??? Preferably not on Memorial Day so I don't have to miss the ANNUAL RME TRAIL RUN AND BARBEQUE EXTRAVAGANZA???? :D :D :D

Heard it was a killer event, I'm glad as hell to hear it!

[TheBigSgt]

I had a Blast, but worn out as hell! LOL

All you comptitor were the BOMB!

Craig, great job to say the least!

Thanks to everyone who helped and came out to watch!

[SAMI]

absolutely incredible event!

Craig, and all the Stumps rock the hizouse..

The raffle prizes were stellar, lots of donations to the event, raffle sales, U4WDA new members... Great support all around..

Some pics...
This pretty much sums up Friday, to which Saturday was beautiful weather.
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x311/jason_goates/Random/100_1075.jpg

Robby Flandro finishing first overall in stock class... Gettin all sorts of twisted in the crack...
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x311/jason_goates/Random/100_1186.jpg

CarlPlus finishing up for 2nd.. This particular run was incredible to watch, as the skill in driving and spotting(Todd Adams) was something i've never seen before in any other team.
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x311/jason_goates/Random/100_1322.jpg

Rawlin setting up a smokescreen :)
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x311/jason_goates/Random/100_1368.jpg

[chadschoon]

robby put on the best show on saturday on the DELTA TOWER OF DEATH!!! your crazy man :)

[gravesdiggerxj]

Robby on the Delta Tower of Death!
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u277/gravesdiggerxj/Delta%20Old%20School%20Rock%20Crawl%205-22-24-08/th_102_0053.jpg (http://s170.photobucket.com/albums/u277/gravesdiggerxj/Delta%20Old%20School%20Rock%20Crawl%205-22-24-08/?action=view&current=102_0053.flv)

Team Byrd on the Delta Tower of Death!

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u277/gravesdiggerxj/Delta%20Old%20School%20Rock%20Crawl%205-22-24-08/th_102_0054.jpg (http://s170.photobucket.com/albums/u277/gravesdiggerxj/Delta%20Old%20School%20Rock%20Crawl%205-22-24-08/?action=view&current=102_0054.flv)

[SAMI]

robby put on the best show on saturday on the DELTA TOWER OF DEATH!!! your crazy man :)


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[gravesdiggerxj]

Carnage! (exploded u-joint took out the ball joints)
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u277/gravesdiggerxj/Delta%20Old%20School%20Rock%20Crawl%205-22-24-08/102_0018.jpg

Flop
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u277/gravesdiggerxj/Delta%20Old%20School%20Rock%20Crawl%205-22-24-08/102_0022.jpg

flop in the soup bowl
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u277/gravesdiggerxj/Delta%20Old%20School%20Rock%20Crawl%205-22-24-08/102_0025.jpg

recovery
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u277/gravesdiggerxj/Delta%20Old%20School%20Rock%20Crawl%205-22-24-08/102_0028.jpg

D60 carnage
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u277/gravesdiggerxj/Delta%20Old%20School%20Rock%20Crawl%205-22-24-08/102_0040.jpg

Stuck
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u277/gravesdiggerxj/Delta%20Old%20School%20Rock%20Crawl%205-22-24-08/102_0048.jpg

Stuck
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u277/gravesdiggerxj/Delta%20Old%20School%20Rock%20Crawl%205-22-24-08/102_0044.jpg
(thanks for helping us home Carl!)

If anyone has pics of me and Karl, PM me

[chadschoon]

Man I still cant believe my 20$ strap from wallmart held together to lift all those cars out ;)

[I Lean]

Wow, that last shot was an embarrassing one. If we hadn't wasted 2 minutes getting off that thing I'll bet we wouldn't have timed out on that course. :mad:

No problem on the ride home--would have been ugly trying to drive the red 'runner on the street after what you guys did to it. :eek2: Do you have any before/after comparison pics?

[chadschoon]

did you guys end up leaving the red runner there? you should have enterd it in the demolition durby later that night

[I Lean]

Nope, I trailered their red runner home, and they drove mine.

[gravesdiggerxj]

Ya I got a couple
before (notice the nice door)
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u277/gravesdiggerxj/Delta%20Old%20School%20Rock%20Crawl%205-22-24-08/102_0004.jpg

after
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u277/gravesdiggerxj/Delta%20Old%20School%20Rock%20Crawl%205-22-24-08/102_0072.jpg

btw Carl I got a bunch of you, look for a pm

[CRAWL Girl]

I thought it was a great event!! Those that put it on did an awesome job!! The competitors made for some entertaining times and great pics. I will get them downloaded and post up a few pics for you guys. Great Job everyone!! I had a great time!!

Cynthia
CRAWL Girl

[Greg]

Looks like it was a kick-ass event guys, good job to everyone involved, Organizers, Competitors, Judges, etc! I wish I could have made it, my Jeep wasn't quite comp ready so I ended up in Moab. Better than sitting at home!



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Good to see that Supra motor making the Toyota move! :greg: What gear was he in, 4th? :eek2: Nice breakage.

[Dominic]

Awesome event, see you next year.

[SUPERFLY]

i had so much fun this weekend! delta is a rad place, ive always had a good time there and this was no exception.

thanks to craig and his family, u4wda and everyone who helped out it was great.

and thanks to rawlin mcgee, my spotter and in my opinion the best spotter ever he got my rig to do things i never thought were possible

btw i was in 3rd gear low range haha

[Milner]

this is all I can squeeze out of my lovely bride at the moment. I will post more later

http://www.sextonoffroad.com/home/images/delta%20may%202008/DSCF0072.JPG

Nice tan Dusty:greg:

[rock4fun]

Does any one know who the camera crew was that was videoing at the event on saturday and if we could get copy's

[SAMI]

I know Dan's (notajeep) father was filming both days..

[Nixter]

Good times indeed.

Had a great time running into old friends and meeting new ones.

Here are some pics I took.

http://s52.photobucket.com/albums/g13/maxoutmedia/Delta%20Crawl



Nick

[mbryson]

Good times indeed.

Had a great time running into old friends and meeting new ones.

Here are some pics I took.

http://s52.photobucket.com/albums/g13/maxoutmedia/Delta%20Crawl



Nick


Good to see you around Nick! Looks like an awesome event! I had fun over the weekend, but not this kind. :D

[Nixter]

Thanks! Good to be back...now if I can remember how this forum thing works again, I'll be good....:D

[jet_aj]

Does any one know who the camera crew was that was videoing at the event on saturday and if we could get copy's

I was also filming on Saturday, I have 2 hours of video. I don't have time to spend 4 hours editing it so if you would like it, you will get it uncut. Sorry, but with the king challenge around the corner my evenings are pretty well booked with other stuff.

I will post up a link for PayPal for copies of the video I have... It will be somewhere in the $5.00 range just to cover the cost of the Dual layer disc and postage. It will be probably Thursday before I will have an evening to get it posted.

My guess is the video that notajeep's father did will be a little while before it is ready for purchase... I'm sure he has a ton of video to go through and edit before producing anything.

I'm supposed to get with him this week and I will see if he wants the footage I shot to put in with what he has... I dont know if he will, his footage is all in HD quality and mine is only Standard Def.

[Bart]

Looks like a great event. Way to go Craig, and everyone that participated. Someday I'm going to have a rig again.

[maquet24]

I may be the worst crawler ever but I had a great time. Watch out next year...

[gravesdiggerxj]

Dang Mike: good to meet ya! hope fully you get that rig put back together.

[SAMI]

I've started working on putting together a slideshow.. But i've never used Windows Movie Maker, and it doesn't accept my .MOV files... lame

-Jason

[jet_aj]

I've started working on putting together a slideshow.. But i've never used Windows Movie Maker, and it doesn't accept my .MOV files... lame

-Jason

Go Here: http://www.redkawa.com/videoconverters/ps3video9/

FREE PROGRAM I've used this with fairly decent results to convert the .MOV media to a MPEG2 which Win Media Player will be able to use.

Its takes a little bit to understand how to use the program, but here is the quick run down.

When you first open the program it will be in the Home Screen which always asks to donate. Its a good Idea to do so if you end up using it a lot. I always like to support free programs, Especially the ones that work well.

At the top of the screen, click on the Settings Menu.

Set Device to PS3
Set Profile to MPEG-2 PS 2mbps
Process, Leave Normal

At this point you can click the Tab that says Devices and you can change the locations of the Media it converts. By default all the media is converted to folders in Folders in C:\Program Files(Installed folder)\Red Kawa\Video Converter\Videos\ ---Device PS3 or Wii--- \ --Format type--

You can change them to a different folder if you want or just remember this location as it is where you will need to browse to in Movie Maker or get the converted movies.

Click on the Convert Menu at the very top of the screen.

Click on the Editing Profiles tab, set as follows for decent results. (You can play with the setting to get various results, but these will get you started)

Device: PS3
Profile: MPEG-2 2mbps

Encoder: PS3 1-pass -FFmpeg [6830]

Under General, Set:

Codec: MPEG-2 PS
Mode: CBR (Constant Bit Rate)
Bitrate: 4096 (the higher the number the better the quality, but the larger the files)

Framerate: Input
Aspect Ratio: 4:3

Under the Resolution Box Set,

Preset: either Input or 640x480

Under the Audio Box set,

Codec: MP2
Mode: CBR
Bitrate: 128 (higher is better quality, but again larger files)
Channels: Sterio
Sample Rate: either Input or 44100

Now it is all set for good quality converted MPEG-2 files for editing in Win Movie Maker.

To Convert the .MOV movies:
Click on the Convert Menu at the top of the screen if your not already there.

Click on the Current Conversion tab.

Click the One-Click Convert button, Browse to the folder containing your .MOV files, select the first file and click Open. This will start the conversion and will give you percentage complete and time remaining. It will tell you when your done. Now you can go back to the folder where the converted video was saved. It will be saved the same file name, but in MPEG-2 format.

Repeat this step as many times as you need to to convert all your movies.

Hope this solves your Win Movie woes... If you have any problems/questions shoot me a line and I'll try and help ya out.

[toyotaman]

I may be the worst crawler ever but I had a great time. Watch out next year...

you and me both buddy! lets do a little peak run soon!

[Tacoma]

I'll enter next year... in... THE DEATHBLAZER!

[jet_aj]

Well here is a short clip I was able to get put together tonight:
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I have 2 hours of video available for anyone that would like a copy... Fair warning, its uncut and unedited so there may be some parts that you find boring or such.

It's available for a $5.00 donation to cover DVD media and shipping costs...

http://www.jdubaudio.com/videos.html

[TEAM FRED]

Nice! I just bought one.
Thanks for filming.

[maquet24]

you and me both buddy! lets do a little peak run soon!

I'm going to need a little encouragement and maybe some shop time to rebuild my front suspension. That's the second time I've broke that front shock eyelet and I don't really want to keep limping along, I want a permanent fix

[gravesdiggerxj]

I'm going to need a little encouragement and maybe some shop time to rebuild my front suspension. That's the second time I've broke that front shock eyelet and I don't really want to keep limping along, I want a permanent fix

Fix it soon! let's hit up little peak

jet_aj: paid ya for the the footage!

[jet_aj]

jet_aj: paid ya for the the footage!

Yep, I checked my e-mail at 11:10 last night and got the email... good timing. I've put DVD's in the mail today for you, Carl N., Steve C., and Craig. Hope you guys enjoy em.

Steve, when yours shows up give me a call... There is and extra something in there that should help you with the video you are working with that we chatted about the other day.