Mud is for people who don't have Moab.
I know it isn't quite mud bogging, but people who have Moab still have clay and quicksand if it rains enough, and it does once in a while.
Clay is interesting; slippery as snot, but doesn't have to be very deep.
Blue Hills Road is one of those "impassable when wet" roads, This was mid week out on Blue Hills Road when the second round of storms hit with a vengance during the 06 Fall Fling.
On Saturday after several days of rain, attempting to drive Blue Hills Road, the meaning of impassable when wet came in to play, It means you better hope it's flat; further defined as moderate XJ's hit the ditch first, big XJ's hit the ditch second, stock XJ's on all terrains breeze past both on the crown of the road.
Big XJ's get back on the road first, moderate XJ's then use the tracks of the big XJ to get back on the road. stockers go :conceited
Here on the last stretch after turning around, my tire tracks show a struggle to drive straight, Lion slipping from one "shoulder" to the other is struggling to find the road again through a muddy windshield, and Paul shoots it straight down the middle one more time!
Cakes on fast like cement.
We had fun, except for cleanup. The impassable part was a 3' to 4' cut bank across the road from a brand new wash crossing created by all that water. Now if that had been the road to Spring Canyon Bottom, Mineral Bottom, or the Shafer Trail, this might explain how those old wrecks end up in the boulders off the side of the cliff.
Quicksand; like clay it doesn't have to be very deep to get interesting, but that stuff simply just catches you off guard. Quicksand looks just like regular firm wet sand, but by the time your sinking it's already too late.
I was also battling a stretch TC chain at the time, didn't fully realize it until the next week when I checked the TC.
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