Katemcy Rocks

Baertrax Customer Appreciation Run

2008-08-28T10:14:00.000-07:00

Plan to be in Katemcy for the Baertrax Customer Appreciation Event September 19th, 20th. and 21th.

Russ and Christy are celebrating another banner year at Baertrax. So they are expressing their thanks by providing a great band and a little BBQ.

Friday -- Arrive at camp chill and swim at the Llano river.

Saturday -- Wheeling all day Music Saturday night by Arron Navarro Band. BBQ provided By Wayne and Tanna's catering. food will start at 7:30 first 200 will be served so be there early. Band will start @ 8 play till 11 then will have an acoustic jam after till ??? So bring your voice, guitars, spoons etc and lets have some fun.

Sunday -- wheeling till 3 pm.

Price-- Regular weekend entry fees . Look at Katemcy Rocks web site for more details.
http://www.katemcyrocks.com/prices.html

Summer 2008

2008-07-02T10:05:00.000-07:00

We will re-open with the following Fall schedule of four great open events, hope to see you there:

Sept 5-6
Texas TTORA's Annual Texas Takeover
Open event sponsored by the Texas TTORA gang

Sept. 19-21
Baertrax Customer Appreciation Run (baertrax.com)
Open event sponsored by our good friends at Baertrax
more details to come on pricing and extras at this three day event

Oct 4-5
Laredo PC 4x4 Annual Run & West Texas Off Road
Customer Appreciation Run
Open event that you wont want to miss with the Spanish speaking, English playing, jamming rock band and, of course, Waldo.

Oct 25-26
Katemcy Rocks End of Season Event
Cypress Off Road's Annual Run (cypressoffroad.com)
Open event.
This is your last chance to wheel Katemcy until late January 2009, so come join the fun!

Katemcy Rocks' Annual Memorial Day Weekend Bash, 2008

2008-05-21T11:20:00.000-07:00

It's time to sign-up for the 2008 Katemcy Rocks Annual Memorial Day Weekend Bash! This event is limited to 150 rigs so please complete the registration form below to reserve your spot.

Saturday, May 24 thru Monday, May 26th.

Front gate opens at 12:00 noon on Friday for those wanting to come set up camp early.
Wheeling starts Saturday morning and ends Monday at 3:00 p.m.
We will have the best damn band in country music, the John D. Hale Band back again to entertain us Sunday evening. If you've never seen these guys you need to be sure to make this event just to listen to them.
Catered BBQ Sunday night.

Prices:

Driver's package: $100.00
includes:

3 days of wheeling (Saturday - Monday)
3 nights of Camping (Fri night - Sun. night)
Live music Sunday night John D. Hale Band
BBQ Sunday night

Passenger/Spectator package: $35.00
includes:

3 days of wheeling (Saturday - Monday)
3 nights of Camping (Fri night - Sun. night)
Live music Sunday night John D. Hale Band
BBQ Sunday night

Come join the fun. Be sure and complete the registration form below so we may plan accordingly for the caterer.

REGISTRATION FORM

Dogs

2008-03-30T14:52:00.000-07:00

Dogs have become a problem at the last few events at Katemcy forcing us to make some changes. We have had a large number of complaints of loose dogs urinating on campsites, scaring people, eating food & trash from other campsites, barking all night and otherwise annoying other guests. That is not pleasant environment for others. While we have many dog owners that are very conscientious about their pets and keep them leashed, others are more lax in the monitoring perhaps unaware of what their pet is doing. As a result, we have decided that from this point forward, if you wish to bring your dog to Katemcy you must make arrangements with either Shain or Randy in advance. If your dog is allowed, you will be required to keep your dog LEASHED AT ALL TIMES. This includes in camp. This is where most of the complaints have originated. If your dog is found loose, or others complain of your animal urinating on their camp, incessant barking, or related problems, you will be asked to leave forfeiting your admission fee(s) or you will have to make arrangements to have the dog immediately removed from the premises.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

2008 Schedule of Events

2007-12-16T10:39:00.000-08:00

The brand-spankin' new 2008 Schedule of Events is officially posted up! Be sure to check back throughout the season of course as we continue to add more events.

Click here to go to the 2008 schedule

Rocktoberfest

2007-10-17T21:43:00.000-07:00

October 26,27,28

Three days Wheeling Friday Saturday and Sunday till 2pm

Band on Friday night-- Small Town Gypsies
Band on Saturday night- The Locals

Chili and Bean Dinner Friday Night
BBQ dinner on Saturday Night

Camping Thursday, Friday,Saturday night
Drivers $100 Bucks
Spectators $45 bucks

Katemcy Rocks' Annual Memorial Day Weekend Bash, 2007

2007-05-14T21:24:00.000-07:00

It's time to sign-up for the 2007 Katemcy Rocks Annual Memorial Day Weekend Bash! Here are the details of the event, with a registration link is at the bottom. Please note: you MUST pre-register for this event!

Saturday, May 26 thru Monday, May 28th.

Front gate opens at 12:00 noon on Friday for those wanting to come set up camp early.
Wheeling starts Saturday morning and ends Monday at 3:00 p.m.
Sand Drags Sunday evening
We will have the best damn band in country music, the John D. Hale Band back again to entertain us Saturday evening on the new stage. If you've never seen these guys you need to be sure to make this event just to listen to them.
Catered BBQ Saturday night with brisket, sausage and chicken.
Dr. Pepper concession booth with free Dr. Pepper.

Prices:

Driver's package: $90.00
includes:

3 days of wheeling (Saturday - Monday)
3 nights of Camping (Fri night - Sun. night)
Live music Saturday night John D. Hale Band
BBQ Saturday night

Passenger/Spectator package: $35.00
includes:

3 days of wheeling (Saturday - Monday)
3 nights of Camping (Fri night - Sun. night)
Live music Saturday night John D. Hale Band
BBQ Saturday night

Admission for kids under 12 is free. Kid's meal tickets are half price at $5/head.

Come join the fun. Be sure and sign up on the sign up sheet so we can tell the caterer how many to plan to feed.

REGISTER HERE ---> REGISTRATION FORM

Lone Star Early Bronco Round Up, April 20-22, 2007

2007-05-04T08:09:00.000-07:00

Broncos, Broncos, everywhere!
Sunny skies and 75 early broncos greeted us at Katemcy on this 8th Annual Lone Star Early Bronco Round Up. Everything from extreme, rock-rash covered rigs to pristine showroom looking EBs were here for this three day event. You could roll your rig on the trail [pic 2] or leave it in camp for people to ogle over [Pic 3]. Some folks brought extra broncos with them just in case their first rig broke! Good idea, Kim. Sorry about the 2nd rig too!

Vendors such as James Duff broncos, BC Broncos, Toms Broncos Parts, PSC Motorsports, and Wild Child, showed up and wheeled with the Lone Star Early Bronco gang and their friends. Dozens of other vendors donated items to Saurday night's raffle which was full of great stuff that I got cheated out of!! Paul sold me all the loser tickets!

Suzi Duff didn't bring down her family's famous "Hi Ho Silver" bronc, but Chris Towery was glad to give Suzi a ride in his big purple "Barney." I'm sure Suzi was quite impressed with Chris' driving when he laid his bronc over on Suzi's side! The sand drags were as popular as ever this year with lots of folks running their broncs, their tow rigs, or their buddy's rig if he wasn't watching. After some debate the sand drag officials declared Kirk Jorden, running his "buzzin' half dozen" turbo-charged straight six cylinder, as overall winner...or was that weiner...I don't remember.

Saturday evening after a full plate of BBQ, I'm not sure who fell asleep quicker, the 20 plus little kids or their exhausted parents. It was a lot of fun for everyone. Great job LSEB!!

- Shain Chapman

Moab Easter Jeep Safari, 2007

2007-04-27T13:46:00.000-07:00

Shain, Randy and the crews from West Texas Offroad and Baertrax made their annual pilgrimage to Moab, Utah for the 41st Annual Easter Jeep Safari. A couple of Katemcy regulars, Brain Purkerson and Kevin Johnson, brought their Rubicons and joined the fun for a few days. Duane Smith and Claudia Crow for Get Bent! videos showed up with cameras the day we hit 'Behind the Rocks' and, hopefully, got some good footage for another top notch DVD!

Earlier in the week on Hell's Revenge, Kenneth Wright showed us how to roll on your lid in one of the hot tubs, Toby Harrell showed us how to nearly lose it and toast your rig (as he did 2 years earlier) in the big hot tub, and we spied one of Jeep's new JK concept trucks out wheeling [top pic]. Russ and Christy Baer invited us along on the Crawl Magazine media run where we had a good time hanging out with the Klein family (www.we-rock.cc) and some of the W.E. Rock and U.R.O.C. teams. Randy, Shain and Russ played on Upper Hellderado and Shain managed to take the worst line [bottom pic]. This was another week that just blazed by too fast with great four wheeling, fun and friends.

Staff

Lone Star Land Cruiser RoundUp, March 14-18

2007-04-27T11:33:00.000-07:00

This year's annual Toyota Land Cruiser event was another huge success with over 70 rigs, multiple vendors, the FC Cruiser Team, and the best damn band in country music...the John D. Hale Band!! The weather was great and tons of folks showed up. This year the landcruiser crowd may have set a Katemcy record with cruisers from 17 different states from Oregon to Florida! The Oregon boys from Metal Tech 4x4 trailered from Portland, toasted a trailer in Utah, bought a new trailer, and kept driving to Texas. And they vowed to do it again next year! (well maybe not the trailer buying part). Check out some of their photos at HERE. A host of other photos are on the net on sites such as the LSLC site and Pirate 4x4. And no, I didn't roll over on the start of waterfall trail on purpose. The ever-so-kind land cruiser crowd wouldn't pull me back over until they all wasted a half a roll of film taking pictures of my rig to post on land cruiser sites : ) Doc Troutman kept with tradition and did his annual 'dance' during the concert Friday night. Scary! I'm afraid to see what next year brings. Great event and great folks! Look for a full story in Toyota Trails. We're ready for the next one!!

*NEW*
Check out this video from the FJCruiser team: VIDEO LINK

- Shain Chapman

Happy New Year!

2007-01-01T19:56:00.000-08:00

2007 is here, and along with it comes the Katemcy Rocks 2007 Schedule of Events. Be sure to check it out and start planning your wheelin' trips for this season.

As always, come back to our website throughout the year as we add new events.

Last Open Weekend of 2006

2006-09-28T20:15:00.000-07:00

Sept. 30 - Oct. 1
K Rocks Last Open Weekend of 2006

That's right. Sept. 30 - Oct 1 will be Katemcy Rocks last open weekend in 2006. Come join in on one last weekend of wheeling before we shut down for deer season. We will have good weather, good music (Sat. night), and good friends. Standard rates apply. Wheeling Sat all day, Sun. until 3:00 p.m. Front gate opens Friday at noon. No wheeling until Sat. morning. Camping available Fri and Sat night.

Labor Day Weekend Run, Open Event

2006-08-14T06:01:00.000-07:00

Well the hot Texas summer is fixin to come to a close, so it's time to get ready to open up the rocks again for wheelin', and there ain't a better time to do that then over the long holiday weekend. We've setup a package deal that includes an extra day of wheelin, so plan on coming out and having a good time at K-Rocks this Labor Day!

Sat.-Mon. Sept. 2-4.
Labor Day Weekend Run, open to all. Wheeling all day Saturday, all day Sunday, and Mon. until 2:00 p.m. There will be no wheeling on Friday but campers can arrive and set up camp Friday anytime after noon.

Cost:
$75 Driver's weekend package (camping Fri-Sun, wheeling Sat.-Mon.)
$25 Passenger weekend package (camping Fri.-Sun., passenger Sat.-Mon.)

Memorial Day Weekend - 5th Birthday Bash

2006-05-22T18:24:00.000-07:00

Just a reminder, our big Katemcy Rocks 5th Birthday Bash is coming up this weekend over the Memorial Day Holiday. We'll have extended wheelin days, live music both nights, dinner both nights, and included camping with shower access--all for the low price of only $100 for the weekend driver package. See our BIRTHDAY BASH page for all the details.

Also, remember that the event is limited to the first $150 rigs to sign up, and you've gotta sign up in advance online; the signup page is on the BIRTHDAY BASH page as well.

We'll see ya'll this weekend on the rocks!

Baertrax Customer Run

2006-05-16T10:03:00.000-07:00

Well last weekend, our good buddies Russ and Christy Baer of BAERTRAX in Dallas held the 3rd Annual Customer Appreciation Run here at K-Rocks. We had well over a hundred rigs show up to wheel this weekend, and they were treated to some fantastic Texas springtime weather--about 85 degrees, a nice cool breeze all day, and no rain until late Sunday afternoon at the conclusion of the event.

Of course, Russ Baer had to test out his newest roll cage. Clint didn't seem to mind that his wife Dana got flipped on her lid as she was riding passenger with Russ.

In additon to wheelin, local musician Spider Johnson performed on stage Saturday night, and the Baers treated their customers to a free steak dinner, catered by Leonard Wilson. Then later on in the evening, Randy, Elaine, and Wenie got on stage to sing, accompanied by Chris Cloud's daughter Isabella on tambourine.

Russ and Christy had this to say after the event:

We want to thank everyone for coming--we had a wonderful time. As always, the wheeling was spectacular and so were our hosts--Randy & Pam Kruse and family. It was all "Greatness".

Russ & Christy Baer

It was a great event--if you were there, we hope you had a great time too. And if you weren't there...well, you missed out! So be sure to make it out to the next Katemcy Rocks event, the Memorial Day 5th Birthday Bash.

Katemcy Rocks 5th Birthday Bash

2006-04-26T21:28:00.000-07:00

Memorial Day Weekend
May 26 - 28, 2006
Limited to the first 150 Rigs to signup

CLICK HERE for details and the required sign up sheet.

Shain and I were talking the other day and we have been open for 5 years now. So we are going to have a party and celebrate. Memorial Day Weekend (May 26-28) Friday, Saturday, Sunday will be the date. We will open for camping Thursday night and then wheel Friday, Saturday, Sunday (wheeling till 3:00 p.m. Sunday). Friday night we will provide a Chili and Beans dinner. Saturday night we will provide a BBQ meal. We will also have a kick ass band playing Saturday night -- the John D. Hale Band (www.johndhaleband.com) from Missouri. They are featured on XM Radio Outlaw Country and one of the best new country bands we've heard in a long time. They played here during the Toyota Land Cruiser Event in March and were so good we begged them to come back. We are tentatively having music Friday night as well but have not got the official okay from the other musician. We will have a package deal including wheeling, event t-shirt, meals, music and camping. Limited 150 rigs. So better sign up early.

Thanks,

Randy

Lone Star Early Bronco Club Spring Round Up

2006-04-24T18:35:00.000-07:00

The 7th annual Lone Star Early Bronco Club Spring Round Up event was a big success! Tons of vintage Ford Early Bronco 4x4s showed up, breaking all sorts of club attendance records. Over 80 rigs showed up to hit the trails here at Katemcy Rocks, plus they had a huge raffle with lots of great prizes from vendors. As you probably know, this is the 40th anniversary of the Early Bronco, so there are a lot of big EB runs being held throughout the country this year, and we're proud to have been able to host such a great event.

CLICK THIS LINK for a thread on the ClassicBroncos.com forum with pics of the event from some of the attendees.

Randy and Shain had some fun at Moab EJS

2006-04-17T17:00:00.000-07:00

Randy, Shain, and the rest of the Katemcy Rocks crew made another trip to Moab this year for the annual Easter Jeep Safari event. As always, a good time was had by all. Here's what happens when Shain spots Randy over an obstacle. Ha-ha!

And check out the new 37" Goodyear MTR tires on Randy's rig. Thanks for the great tires, Goodyear! Next time, Randy will try to keep them on the ground; he says they don't have nearly as much traction when they're sticking up in the air. ;-)

Texas Club Challenge IV - The April Fools Run

2006-03-13T07:51:00.000-08:00

April 1-2, 2006
Open Event
Pre-registration

Who better to host an April Fool's Day event than the Aggies?? Texas A&M Off Road (TAMOR) will host its 4th Annual Texas Club Challenge at Katemcy on April 1-2, 2006. As always, this promises to be a fun event. The Aggie boys always have a good time and they always bring lots of cute girls...so who are real fools..the Aggies or you for sitting at home twiddling your thumbs? Come join in on the fun April 1-2.

This is an OPEN EVENT open to all, BUT there is a PRE-REGISTRATION and a higher fee than a typical weekend event. The deadline for early registration is quickly approaching. The fee covers your driver's entry, camping and wheeling (Sat and Sun wheeling), a meal and a dash plaque. For more details and pre-registration go to www.texasclubchallenge.com

Gig 'em Ags

Here come the Land Cruisers!

2006-03-01T06:20:00.000-08:00

Well we've had one heckuva busy week out here on the 'Rocks...First we had the group from Rockport Off Road Park out on Monday and Tuesday, part of their cross-country wheelin' adventure. It was a small group, but a good one, and I think we showed 'em what "Rockcrawling Texas Style" is all about.

But now we've got the big Lone Star Cruiser Roundup event being put on by the Lone Star Land Cruisers club starting up today and running through sunday. Looks like they're gonna run trails for three solid days, Thursday-Friday-Saturday. If you've got a Toyota Land Cruiser and are just now finding out about the event and want to attend, you'll need to go to their website and contact Nolen Grogan, Event Coordinator to inquire about last minute registration.

New website design is up!

2006-02-26T13:42:00.000-08:00

The all-new Katemcy Rocks website is up and running! We've got tons of new information on the website now, including this 'news/blog' feature. Hopefully you'll find the new information useful when planning YOUR trip down here to wheel at Katemcy Rocks, and we hope the news updates will keep you up-to-date on all the goings-on here at Katemcy Rocks.

The frozen FWD event

2006-02-20T09:50:00.000-08:00

Well our last event, the Katemcy Kickoff, was just about the most perfect weather you could ask for in the month of February. But as luck would have it, our second event of the year -- the Forth Worth Dallas Four Wheel Drive (FWD-FWD) club event -- turned out to be the coldest weekend of the entire winter. We're talking sub-freezing temperatures in the 20ºs. Definately could use a heater in the Jeep on freezing cold days like that. Just look at how Russ and JoJo are bundled up in layers trying to stay warm. Brrr!

Course then there's Jay Albright. Even in 20º weather, he's still wearing his infamous pepper pants. Hope he was wearing several pairs of long johns under those, or else he's gonna be frozen solid for the next six months.

For more inforrmation on FWD-FWD, check out their website at www.fwd-fwd.org

Aerial Video footage from Katemcy Kickoff

2006-02-08T14:26:00.000-08:00

Mark LaBoyteaux from HawkEye Media in Keller (Dallas-Fort Worth area) shot some awesome footage during the Katemcy Kickoff event. It's Aerial Videography shot with a camcorder attached to a radio controlled helicopter.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO.

Katemcy Kickoff a huge success

2006-02-06T09:43:00.000-08:00

Our "Katemcy Kickoff" opening weekend event (Feb. 4th-5th) was a huge success. We had a record turnout at the rocks: over 160 rigs in attendance! It probably helped that we had beautiful weather, especially considering it's February, plus everybody was just itchin to get out and wheel again after the holidays.

Thanks to all y'all who came out to Katemcy Rocks. Hope you enoyed it!

New 2006 Release Form available

2006-01-01T00:01:00.000-08:00

The new 2006 Release Form is available online. All visitors to Katemcy Rocks must sign a release form, which can slow down the registration process at the gate. If you download this form, print it, fill it out, and bring it with you to Katemcy Rocks, you'll save valuable time during the registration process, both for yourself and others in line.

Download the form here.