Well, heres the skinny on the Warns Rock rawling contest 1999 as I saw it.
It was a dammed blast! Lots of very cool ppl. I think I can say without resevation that we had the largest group there. Well we staked out the largest plantation anyway. Had to walk 100 ft to get to the camp fire. Heres a list of everybody I can remember.

Bud & Aileen Boren
Jay & Margie Lyon and of course "Molly the puppers"
Matt & Ms Vicky & Lacey
Mike and Lisa Garner and "Feep"
Mark Alligood
Al Bsharah
Steve MaKay & his two gauslings along with the new missus (Debbie)
Steve & Renie Friend and daughter Dennie (Contestants)
Dave and Pam Wills (Kansas)
Gilbert farkenuggen the flying Dutchman ( Netherlands)
Gil Meachum and his very nice friend Suzie-Oh yeah and his sheep named spot.  heh heh!! (Or)
Brad & Charles (the barker) Kilby
Andi Vogt (UT) PR person for www.4x4wire.com
Randy Burleson,  Managing Editor 4x4wire.com
Bob Bills
David Oh
Paul Nasvik
Seth Markowitz
Johnathon Dolen
Dave Goodale
Steven Smith
Brian Williams & Ben ah "I ain't sure"
Jeff Weston & his father and brother's
Matt Brookins
Bart & Janeal & family (contestants)
Marion and Marsha Terry (UT)
Jim ( Jimbo) Foster (Chi town)
Carrots, potatoes Oh hell, wrong list. Sorry!
Those who couldn't attend and were supposed to were=====
Brad ( Magilla) Dokken
Bill Cue just didn't have the heart to show up so, there ya go!
Brett Cullpepper who didn't  show up but was entered as a contestant.

Anyway thats the cast of caractors.

I caravaned with Jay and Margie Lyon and when we got there Mike Garner was there already with Dave and Pam Wills. Andi was there also. Didn't take long before the rest of the characters started arriving. The party started right off. Thur night was a big fire, lots of laughs and capping on everybody that wasn't there yet.
I had Pokey all shined up a ready to be cool and what happens? Aileen takes it down the road to make a call and gets stuck in 5" of sand. Hahahaha!! All the big dog wheelers coming down that road and Pokeys out in the middle of the road stuck in one wheel drive. Ya see, Warn hubs suck on thier full floaters and I blew out two more towing the rig up there. Thats right! Towing it!!  Blown 4 of them that way, never blown one wheeling once they're locked in though. Anyway, here sits Pokey all jacked up looking like it's ready to kick ass stuck in a sand box. Bud Boren written all over it. Just so happens Bart Jacobs comes by and Janeal says, Hey! Ain't that Aileen out there, wife of the guy that owns Pokey, jeep who never gets stuck and uses his winch to set beer on only?? Yep! It's him. Damn! He needs a hair cut something fierce don't he!!
Yikes! It is Aileen, let's see what we can do. So he scares the bejeesus out of her and tells her to skeedaddle outta there whilst he fixes things. Course he runs an automatic and can't figure out what the hell all them shift levers are for. Ha! What a girlyboy huh!! Anyway he finally finds something that makes it move in either 2, 3 or any combination to get it unstuck. I guess he was looking for the 4x4 light to come on or something.  Hahahahaha! It's a CJ ya moke!!
So with Pokey safe in camp and me, Dave Wills, Jay and whomever gave a shit worked the problem out just fine. I didn't need no stinking 4 wheel drive anyway. I needed a new pair of feet by the time that weekend was over though sheesh!  Never thought I'd do the Hammers on foot! I'd rather drive it and fix the jeep later!!

Well Friday rolled around soon enough and much to my shagrin I had to get up early to shoot some film. About 10:00 I think it was. oooooh! I hate that!! I'm three hours late and ask where the XJ is. Some guy says just around the corner. Well! Looks like I ain't gonna be having to run up them dangerous rocks anyway. I was right of course as I always am. Filmed Bart and a lot of other yahoos all damned day. Got tired of ppl yelling to get off the course so right off the bat I yelled back, I'm with the press so shove it! Hahahaha! Even the press believed me and I spent the whole day hanging out with the photog's on the trail. What an asshole huh! That was the safest place though. There were for some reason a bunch of ppl way up on the cliff edges that were obviously way down in the gene pool knocking some pretty humongous boulders down on everyone. It could have become dangerous as hell to but not many seemed to mind.

So anyway, I follow Bart all the way up through the sixth gate and they close the other two because it was getting dark. What the hells up with that anyway? Last month when we ran Jackhammer,  I would have liked to close the last section when it got dark. But did we? Hell no! We kept it open and ran it like real men.  Well, me anyway I'm a wondering about the rest.  heh heh!  It seems to me that no matter how long it takes they should have let all go through all the gates. Hell, when I went back there were still 5 guys waiting to start. Maybe they misjudged how tuff it would be to get 30 trucks over that trail in the first place. Who knows, but I didn't think it was fair to just cut the first guys points off at that junction and all the contestants had to go out that way anyway. hey! Ya pays yer bucks you should get your chance. If I were in it I would have gladly run it in the dark rather than get 86'd cuzz it got dark. Just my thoughts though. They didn't ask me for some reason. Prolly heard about those broken Warn hubs and decided not to, ya think!!

Anyway we as per thur night had a blast around the fire (to me the best part of the trip) and both Steve Friend and Bart Jacobs did pretty good. Paul, Steve's spotter and Garner, Bart's spotter did an exellent job too. I didn't get over to the other trail to film Steve,so Saturday I went up Wrecking Ball again to catch some film of him. Same-o on the getting up and getting out there and sure enough. when I got there he was sitting on the first gate. Everyone was having having a hard time on this one gate and he aced it. Hahaha! That was great! I think he zeroed out on the one before and after though. That was great too far as I was concerned. Both him and Bart finished up in the middle or above and that was one hell of an accomplishment. For what those guys have in their rigs and compared to what some had invested I would say they both kicked ass!  Great spotters and really great drivers both teams.

So anyway, Saturday night started out ok. We all gathered around the fire pit and started shooting the bull. About 10:00 all the religious folks went to bed as always. Hahaha! Hey! It gets rough iffin ya ain't got a good sense of humor. So we just drug all the listers not in attendance through the coals as usual. You should know who you are in case your wondering.  Hahahaha! Just kidding of course.

Some of the highlights were:::::::

Garner brings a couple gallons of corn and soy  beans or oh hell they looked like some kind of  legumes or whatever the hell ya call them things. Anyway me and several others ended up with it stuck in our hair,ears,pockets,nose and anywhere else you ordinarally have a crevice stuck in your body Haha! I even had some fallout of who knows where when my head hit the pillow that night. Or should I say morning. The sun was almost up and I had to get out to see the finals in a couple hours. Damned kids anyway!
 

So, Matt knocks on the dr and yells I better get it in gear. Just what I was dreamin about too! Ain't life strange? Go figure huh! I get up grab the camera and get Pokey all started up, all three cylinders and two hubs, and haul outta there to try to catch up. All alone too! Sniff!! So here I am cruising the desert floor wondering if I'm even going the right way when I look in the mirror and see about 100 trucks following me. Yikes! what to do!!!  Being the resourceful guy I am I get on every channel ( 40 of em) and say, hey don't follow that guy in the red jeep he just came out to take a crap!!  Hahahaha! Didn't work of course and they kept following me to who knew where. I finally saw some dust and followed it and low and behold took us all right to the run that day. Hey! It worked out.

Well, thats about it I guess. I left out lots of stuff but I'm doing this in Notepad and I'm running out of room. heh heh! What a puter geek huh. Now I have to get it into my site ah! Whatever you call it. Hey Matt,  Dok, You guys!!!!!!

See you kids later

Bud Boren