Muddy Roads

As somebody who often ventures in the backcountry during the spring time, I am well aware that many state truck trails are closed in spring time, and those that are open tend to be a muddy mess. Watching my favorite off-grid Youtube channels got me thinking about how problematic mud and muck really is, especially if you don’t have a well built road.

These folks in Idaho are all but stuck …

NB888 tries to chop away at the snow banks to try to dry out his road sooner …

50 acres and a Cabin doesn’t struggle so much with mud, but he has a lot of problems with erosion on the last part of his road to his cabin in West Virginia…

And so on. A four-wheeler or UTV might be less likely to get stuck and easier to winch out, and indeed there is more solitude to living somewhere an ordinary motor-vehicle can’t get to, although it makes it harder to haul large loads, and an open-four wheeler can mean you get quite muddy, smelling like gasoline before you make it to work or off the mountain where your land is.

Plus the issue of leaving your truck, unattended down by the road, means you risk it getting damaged or vandalized without you knowing, although certainly many people to enjoy the privacy and quite of living someplace without a full motor-vehicle road, and all the problems easy access to a homestead can cause.