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Tuggle, as Randy is known, had planned a day of going off the rim rock/monument road out of Grand Junction. Anybody who
has been up there knows it has the perfect rock set at 45 degrees to snap shots of your rig on top of. The trail up to it is slightly
challenging, yet nothing that we couldn’t work our way through. Of course, having watched many of the Camel Trophy videos, that
isn’t really saying much for the condition of the trail.
Looking up at his sun watch, Doug Evisizor of LRL made the announcement that we were late for evening’s events. Hot-footing
it back to the Stout Ranch, we were pleasantly surprised to see the polo players in full swing as they charged up and down the field
in a effort to score goals and put on a grand show. The course, stunning as it is, wouldn’t be complete without a grand white tent.
The LRL lounge within was perfect, and as the diesels slowly sputtered to a stop, the gin and tonics, along with everything else British,
came into full swing as the night began.
Brian Lehr from the big state of Texas made the trip to the Stout Ranch in his P38 Range Rover to put on the night’s eats, and
nobody left disappointed. The courses consisted of spinach salad, goat cheese with a fine raspberry vinaigrette, Thai vegetable pasta,
a delectable pan-seared Duck with a mango habenero glaze, and rounding things out was a ginger apple crisp. These foods, on a
4x4 trip, were of the gods: to eat them under the budding stars high atop the Stout Ranch was just magical. Of course, Land Rover
owners have never been known to settle for the ordinary hot dog and beans type of life, and the LRL 1st Descents Camel Trophy
owners were no exceptions. Ultimately, the gathering was a fitting tribute to a fine chapter in Land Rover history, a chapter in which
common people did uncommon things in an effort to capture something quite splendid and quite out of the ordinary.
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