[joe moving]

holy crap. we had the most crazy ruts today. I wish i had taken pictures. we are talking 18" super soft stuff. The UPS guy called and said I am not coming down your street , come meet me at such and such store.

So I got in the old Subaru and plowed through it relatively easily. I had to ride the clutch a little to keep it from stalling. I went to go take some pictures and apparently in the time I went out, came home and passed through it twice they came and dumped tons of rocks to fill em up.

I notice the subaru seemed to handle these better than my Jeep ever did. I am guessing the Subaru actually puts power to the correct wheels in this situation rather than the wheel with no traction?

good times!

[OhBeeHave]

Haven't been up to VT since early January and am hoping to make it up by mid April. Any word on what things are looking like around Chester/Andover?

[MRVphotog]

Roxbury Gap an important road from I89 and Northfield into the valley was closed today, maybe thru the weekend. I think everyone knew due to alot of snow the potential is there for a bad mud season. My road ain't great but is passable. I've seen alot worse, maybe that's in a couple of weeks.

[tkln]

We're heading up on Sunday for a few days...can't wait to see what it's going to look like, lol.

[square peg]

Things are softening up for sure. Yesterday I was in the Bakersfield, Sheldon, Enosburg area and there were a few decent ruts here and there on the back roads, but nothing I was overly concerned with. I've been kinda amazed that the Missisquoi River is behaving itself and well within its banks. I don't think the ground froze too deep this winter and a good portion of the melting is going right down into the earth, as my cellar seems to verify . But so far so good. As a rule some of the worst mud can be found in Glover, Albany and Craftsbury but I haven't been in those towns the past few days. Barton has a really bad road right now at the south end of Crystal Lake so I'm pretty sure others are out there.

[jackmccullough]

I've talked to a number of people who say this is the worst mud season in many years. We've had a lot of snow this year, and it all has to go somewhere. I've already heard a couple of stories of people stuck half a mile or more from home, and some friends last night were talking about their plans to just stay home this weekend to give the mud a chance to freeze.

Oh yes, and don't forget: winter isn't over.

[arctichomesteader]

Watch out on Wildcat road in Chittenden (road to Lefferts Pond), crazy muddy for the first section during the day, and the big ruts were frozen early this morning when I was out there making for one exciting drive.

Mud season can be fun, but not in a 2 wheel drive car.

I wonder what the roads out to Lewis Pond in Lewis are like right now? I should probably not even think about it yet. lol

[mountainclimber]

I was on the back roads in Poultney yesterday and it was horrible. A lot of farm/ranch/sugaring equipment rides on these roads and the ruts are both deep and hardly recognizable in places: it's just a swamp pit. I got stuck once, by Moyer's Dairy, on a little hill there. I was so fuming mad I knew I was going to find a way out of it, and I did.

But I am now going to stay away until May and spend my money in places where there are roads, not swamps.

[swanstone1]

I tend to pass ojn my own experience..................If you are looking to move to Northern New England, do it in Mud Season (as I Did) If you can love it then? Everything else is a piece of cake ;-)

[Logs and Dogs]

My 900' driveway is adventurous at this point in the NEK......better to get errands done early morning when things are frozen then get back before conditions totally go to crap.