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Don’t Start Your Backpacking Season Off Like This: With Your Face in the Mud

It’s still spring, meaning it’s wet out there.

This happens to the best of us. Hiking or backpacking in the early spring, creek crossings are a must, and sometimes, we get bogged down by serious piles of mud. It’s never fun but it’s part of the game. But this creek crossing turns into a face plant of epic proportions. These English women are on an early season backpacking trip when they encounter a muddy bog along the trail. Then this epic fail happens.