jack c wrote:Nessie,
You mentioned that you hoped you could deepen this mud location. How do you go about deepening a particular bog - just by working it, or is there some outside action that you take?
Well, there's always...shovels...if I really want to, I could probably smuggle one in.
I also got one of those kitchen utensils that looks like a spoon surrounded by claws. One of my mud friends practically ordered me to get one of those spoon-claw things and keep it with me just in case I get a leg cemented into the mud somehow, although this has never actually happened at any of my locations. I've discovered, though, that those things are handy, especially for skimming unwanted stuff off the top of otherwise pure and lovely peat.
I'm not into working too hard to sink, honestly. A good quicksand pit should draw you down without all that extra effort.
So, for this particular location, I figure that just using it repeatedly ought to pound it in eventually. I can feel that it's bouncy under there, so there IS more mud under a layer of some kind...I just haven't busted through it.
But hey, if it doesn't work out, I still got the other sinkin' hole to fall back on (er, in). That's only another 20 feet closer to the lake and I've never touched bottom.
Nessie