ah tis the season...

got my Kawasaki Bayou 250 out of storage the other week and since the snow was starting to go away here, decided to go for a ride with my brother yesterday. We went into the woods as far as we could before the remaining snow got too deep. He has a 2003 Honda Foreman 400 4x4 with bald tires and I have the aforementioned 05 Bayou 250 4x2 with a winch... ;)

Anyways, he couldn't go riding today, so i set off scouting some other trails; One that caught my eye followed the powerlines and all was good once I got on to it, but after following it for maybe a mile, i dropped down a hill and into one of the worst mud bogs I have ever been in... the mud was easily over 2 feet deep. To start the show, I high centered the ATV and hung the axles. Luckily, a 250 4x2 is pretty light so when I got off, I managed to get it back on to a high spot and dead man it off to the side of the bog... where I rode it back into the mud pit and hung it again on a root.
By this time, i'm in deep... i mean, DEEP. I've got the factory knobbies on it which have as much grip as a wet dick... so i'm spinning and throwing mud, but manged to get off to the left side of the trail where I managed to get free...

That was the first close encounter with mud, the second was by the football field... I dropped into an innocent-looking puddle and the front of the bike just disappeared! I kept the throttle pinned in 2nd gear (it's a 5 speed w/reverse) and kept the wheelspeed up enough where I made it through the 150yard long mud run... some guys on their 4x4's were laughing their ass off at this little 4x2 hammering along with this fat guy on it... i was smiles all the way.

This is why we buy these damn things... an ATV is money well spent.
(i just need better tires... lol)