October 2014 | Volume 7 | Issue 4

I first saw a tailgate cutting board attachment at Cruise Moab a few years back. The utility, cleanliness and simplicity appealed to me both for food use and just as a sensible replacement for the stained and tattered carpet cover that was on my cutting board. A friend of mine gave me a rough cut board that he had acquired from a kitchen supply store. Not having a router or other tools required to give it a polished look, it stayed in my garage, not on my truck. Enter the LabRak Cutting Board. Located in Bend Oregon, Owner Shane Walters has a mind that is always moving at 1000  kilometers an hour. His designs are known for their complex and painstakingly detail oriented craftsmanship. His new cutting board is exacting in it’s build quality and and painstakingly simple. It was simple enough that we decided to install ours on a camping trip in the middle of the rocky Mountains in Colorado.

Driving down the street in Denver on a typical beautiful afternoon, I looked at the Tacoma next to me and realized that something wasn’t normal.  Of course seeing a Taco without badging is nothing out of the ordinary, but at the next red light, I noticed the rims and the ride height.  Then I saw it, a TRD PRO badge on the tail gate.  NO WAY!  They are not supposed to be on the street yet . . .  Well, it was a PRO and here it was with applied for tags.  So, what to do now?  

Pelfreybilt has been in business since 2012, offering Toyota Tacoma owners a well machined product line with great customer service.  The owners are a husband and wife team, with Satin heading up the ordering and customer service, and Tyler designing and fabricating the products. They offer a variety of armor products including bumpers (front and rear), sliders, and front to rear skid plates for 2005+ Tacomas.

Every once and a while a new product comes to market that you never thought you would need and once you use it a few times, you never want to leave home without it. Therein lies the new Dutch Oven Camp Table. Taking your cooking from the fire pit to the grand vista is a rewarding culinary experience. Cooking in a Dutch Oven is an exercise in patience and finesse but the rewards are vast, as they have been known to end wars and begin friendships. At the very least, they can provide the user with a great feast whether it be a mid-morning snack of deliciously warm cinnamon rolls or evening meal of pot roast.