Jeep Liberty, BF Goodrich and Dynatrac
John Gilleland started his Memorial Day weekend by completely smoking the competition at Three Peaks today. The 37-inch BFG Krawlers on Dynatrac axles kept the Liberty clinging to the rocks like a modern-day Spiderman. John made the unusually difficult terrain look like a walk in the park. With a two-day total of 23 points (10 points today), no one even came close to challenging him. Most teams spent day two much the same as they did day one - rolled over and broken. Not so for John who came into day two with a mere 13 points to lead the UNLIMITED class.

Day 2 Mayhem
The most difficult obstacles were the three-in-a-row combination of numbers five, six and seven. These three obstacles became a winch-fest early on and the number of teams that successfully completed all three obstacles without pointing out could be counted on one hand. Dallas Luttrell and spotter Matt Wooly of Salt Lake City felt the wrath of obstacle six and, as Dallas put it, "broke everything" on his 1998 Jeep. It wasn't actually "everything", but his rearend looked like a mass of twisted metal. Rock crawling veterans assessing the damage said that rearend had no business being out here on this type of terrain.

Starting the day with 154 points from day one was Chad Abbott and Scott Dana of Flagstaff, AZ in their 1986 Full Size Chevy half ton. On day one they rolled through the final gates on obstacle eight to finish with 25 points. Their Chevy is running a 383 Stroker, 700R4 tranny with a 208 t-case and front and rear Dana 60's. It comes complete with hydraulic steering and a 100" wheel base. About the only thing missing are bead locks. Chad and Scott are competing in all UROC and CalROCS events this year and have yet to qualify for October's SUPERCRAWL. Having more than their share of problems were Dan Brown and Dave Burling while trying to scale obstacle 5. While they made it through the first part of the obstacle, the last half is where it got ugly. After several attempts to conquer the final wall, Dan suffered a busted lower right control arm and was forced to call on his winch to rescue him. He wasn't done however, as he still had time to complete the obstacle. Once on the hook he tried dragging his rig up the wall only to lose a hub clip on the right front, leaving just his left front tire to climb the wall. When it was all said and done, Dan had fried his winch connection and cooked his left front tire leaving a thick layer of his MT/R on the rocks. With the help of the folks at the BFG trailer they did a quick fix on the Jeep in enough time to continue on with their final obstacle of the day - number six. And after all that, they suffered a hard rollover to finish the weekend.

Top Ten Standing's for Cedar City
These finishers automatically qualify for the SUPERCRAWL in October. UNLIMITED
John Gilleland, 23 points
Scott Gadsen, 104 points
Don Robbins, 120 points
Curt Hildebrand, 132 points
Chris Monk, 140 points
Charlie Copsey, 164 points
"Captain America", 192 points
Jeff Price, 204 points (How did that happen?)
Brandon Gillen, 205 points
Jennifer Little, 210 points LEGEND
Dean Bulloch, 168 points
Garrett Sisson, 186 points
Von Werrett, 260 points
David Laws, 261 points
Jeff Rector, 264 points
Brian Errea, 269 points
Anthony Zimmershied, 270 points
Troy Muse, 292 points
Creighton King, 309 points
Mark Patey, 324 points Photo Galleries* - *Did you know you can purchase any photo in these photo galleries for only $15.00 for each 8x10 - FREE SHIPPING?!

Awards Ceremony (37 photos)
Day 1 Action (274 photos)
Day 2 Action (242 photos)
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We will be returning to Cedar City in July for the next rock crawling competition and Off-Road.com's Second Annual BURGER'S 'N BREW. See you there......... United Rockcrawling and Off-road Challenge
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Delta, Utah 84624
Phone: (435) 864-3199
Craig Stumph
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