Kenny Carlile

While we were in Idaho Falls (and Chubbuck and Pocatello) recently, we met with my girlfriend's brother, Mickey, who has an RC rock crawler. I didn't know that he had one until we got there, but we brought the Rustler along with us, just for fun. On Saturday, March 21st, we met him in Chubbuck at Dapco Hobbies for an RC rock crawling exhibition.

Mickey has an Axial AX10 Scorpion (kit) that he had built around Christmastime, but hadn't yet tried in a real rock crawling situation. I have to admit that I didn't have much interest in RC rock crawling, but I thought it might be fun to check it out anyway. After watching some people take their turn at the course and watching Mickey's truck tackle the course, it seemed like it would be a lot more fun than I originally thought.

It was really interesting to see the sections that the taller trucks did well on versus the sections that the lower trucks did well on. The course was pretty difficult and it seemed that the bigger the tires, the better the truck handled.

I think Santa might need to bring us a rock crawler this year.

The rock crawling course is unsecured in the parking lot at Dapco Hobbies and can be found via the address on their site (linked above), or via these GPS coordinates: N42 54.970 W112 27.899.