It was overcast and rainy this morning but weathernetwork.com said it was going to clear up by two pm and it did. Nice weatherman. At two pm we met Fran at the corner and drove to another ATV trail. Margaret asked for mud and Fran found it. Colin kept bragging that he had never been stuck .... well he can't do that anymore.

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He got really stuck. Funny thing though, he was stuck in the exact place Fran had been stuck earlier this year.

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After attaching his winch to a tree he was able to haul his ATV out of the muck. I hosed it off when we got back to Colin's house and I can tell you there was muck and grass everywhere.

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We stopped for a snack just before another bog. Margaret and I were ready to run around as the bog looked deep to us, Fran wanted to continue to the beaver dam and said she would try getting through the bog --- try being the operative word. She got stuck, got winched out, started heading back to where we were waiting, got stuck again, got winched out again, got stuck again but was able to work her way out.

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Fran was wearing a bit of muck when she got to dry land.

On the way out, I got winched out once though it was much less spectacularly as the other two. Ed and Margaret can still brag that they haven't needed to use their winches to haul themselves out of the muck.

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Colin and Ed's muddy machines.