Mud bog event at Stoughton, Saskatchewan

ATV driving across the mud

The annual Stoughton, SK sports day featured mud fun for a few dozen ATV riders, and a few thousand spectators. The mud bog event begins with a drivers’ meeting, so everyone knows the rules. Drivers line up on the edge of the mud track as their numbers are drawn–the mud run is timed, with the fastest time across declared the winner.

ATVs hit the mud with enough speed to get them into the bog far enough that the drivers are going to get muddy, either from flying mud or the run to the finish line if their ATV bogs down stuck in the mud! This youngster was one who made a mud run.

Young ATV driver in competition

Running through the mud bog on foot!

Bogged down ATVs are winched out by another ATV. At the Stoughton event ATVs without mud tires usually ended up this way. Drivers can be any age in the mud bogs, with this young mud bogger making his way across the mud.

ATV stuck in a mud bog and being towed out

Young driver on his four-wheeler in the mud

These two mud boggers are reaching the end of the course, and wearing a lot of the mud. The one sure thing about a mud bog event is that ATV drivers and spectators will all be lined up for the next one!