Some spots in Wisconsin have some really clay-rich soils and when that gets wet...watch out! The clay gets so slippery that even if you don't get pulled down into it, you'll just sit there on top of it and spin your tires and go nowhere. And if the road is even tilted a little the clay will make you slide right off of it and into the ditch.

i went from spreading manure on a snow covered field to another snow covered field and I'm not sure what was different in the fields other then the second field almost had a John Deere and manure spreader stuck in it cuz i sunk past the snow and straight to the mud haha

I'll agree with deerstalker, the clay soils I saw when I worked in NW WI during the spring were something to behold. Anytime you mix heavy forest cover (which therefore can lead to tight, narrow forest trails) and a good clay topsoil, you've got a recipe for dented bumpers, fenders, door panels, and ruts. You learn to appreciate good grippy tires (BFG All Terrains and knobbier) and high clearance, short wheelbase vehicles.

the mud in alaska is not only sticky and nasty, it's usually very deep!

I have had many a sour deal with mud but none as sour as a mule deer hunt in Utah several years ago.

My buddy will tell you I drove a rented Tahoe off the side of a mountain trying to kill him. I will tell you that there is mudd with the ability to take away all of your steering and braking abilities. Throw in a little help from gravity and you have the makings for a wild ride down a mountain side. Lucky for us there were rocks catching on the undercarriage just enough to slow our descent and like a pin ball we bounced from rock to rock until it leveled enough for me to gun it and get us back on track.

There was not a visible scratch on the body but if the folks at Enterprise Rent-a-car ever looked at the undercarriage they would think... well, that I drove it off a mountain side.

not necessarily fishing, but on several occasions growing up I remember having to assist my dad with digging small ditches to drain our cow pasture. The cows would churn the dirt and water into muck that would be as deep as your waist. You could not even walk in some areas. Several boots were lost over the years...

VT mud is some serious mud. It's not necessarily the quality, more the quantity. Winter, still winter, mud, some short lived warmth but still a bit muddy, back to winter. OH's red clay can get nasty, but nothing tops mud season up there.

John you ain't been stuck till you've been stuck in Missouri black stick. Threw a knee out trying to fling mud off my boot, cars go nowhere without a tractor pull.

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