Paul Gagnon
04-18-2008, 06:08 PM
Alberta Safari Company Off Road Park’s
Tough Trail Challenge 2006
by Paul Gagnon
The Tough Trail Challenge was started in 2003 by the Alberta Safari Company. The event is held annually at their facility just east of Edmonton, Alberta on the third weekend in August. The competition is not a rock crawling event and neither is it a mud bog but it falls somewhere in between as a series of technical trails through dirt and mud, though a little more towards the mud side of the scale. The event draws people from all over the province in order to compete for some great prizes and of course bragging rights.
The competition is a trail ride through a series of 30 obstacles that range from steep, near vertical climbs to seemingly bottomless mud pits. The type of vehicles entered ranged from Jeeps, Land Cruisers, compact pickups, full size pickups, all the way up to light weight rock buggies, hybrid tube buggies and even one that looks like scaffolding on wheels. Some of the competitors are well known members of the pirate4x4.com message board and there were a few past competitors from Four Wheeler Magazine’s Tough Truck Challenge. On hand providing recovery support are members of the 15th Service Battalion of the Canadian Armed Forces Reserve.
On to the video itself which runs 1 hour and 18 minutes, the camera work is decent but the editing and audio need some improvement. The editing is abrupt and the audio during slow motion segments is distracting. Still, the video is entertaining and without the annoying loud background music of some other productions. You can actually hear the big trucks on big tires making lots of noise and flinging lots of mud. There are plenty of rollovers and lots of carnage throughout the various courses. It is quintessential Alberta wheelin’ with prizes.
Thanks to Lee Shonert of Alberta Safari Company for providing me with this DVD. As of this writing the DVD of the 2007 event is also available.
Alberta Safari Company
www.safarioffroadpark.ca
Tel (780) 922-0310
lee@safarioffroadpark.ca
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Tough Trail Challenge 2006
by Paul Gagnon
The Tough Trail Challenge was started in 2003 by the Alberta Safari Company. The event is held annually at their facility just east of Edmonton, Alberta on the third weekend in August. The competition is not a rock crawling event and neither is it a mud bog but it falls somewhere in between as a series of technical trails through dirt and mud, though a little more towards the mud side of the scale. The event draws people from all over the province in order to compete for some great prizes and of course bragging rights.
The competition is a trail ride through a series of 30 obstacles that range from steep, near vertical climbs to seemingly bottomless mud pits. The type of vehicles entered ranged from Jeeps, Land Cruisers, compact pickups, full size pickups, all the way up to light weight rock buggies, hybrid tube buggies and even one that looks like scaffolding on wheels. Some of the competitors are well known members of the pirate4x4.com message board and there were a few past competitors from Four Wheeler Magazine’s Tough Truck Challenge. On hand providing recovery support are members of the 15th Service Battalion of the Canadian Armed Forces Reserve.
On to the video itself which runs 1 hour and 18 minutes, the camera work is decent but the editing and audio need some improvement. The editing is abrupt and the audio during slow motion segments is distracting. Still, the video is entertaining and without the annoying loud background music of some other productions. You can actually hear the big trucks on big tires making lots of noise and flinging lots of mud. There are plenty of rollovers and lots of carnage throughout the various courses. It is quintessential Alberta wheelin’ with prizes.
Thanks to Lee Shonert of Alberta Safari Company for providing me with this DVD. As of this writing the DVD of the 2007 event is also available.
Alberta Safari Company
www.safarioffroadpark.ca
Tel (780) 922-0310
lee@safarioffroadpark.ca
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