What's your favorite "quicksand" substance thing?

[Boggy Man]

I find that after having hair full of mud, including peat, it comes out easily when I go to the pond/lake/stream/river, and immerse my head completely under the water. My hair spreads out nicely, and the mud can be easily dislodged. Same for my ears.

[Rombik82]

I mark "clay" but I like to sink in every of variants

[YerK]

Wow. My answer would be "It depends"...

If we're typing about me dreaming about being in something personally, it would be tar. In reality, though, I wouldn't sink in tar, as I am told it has lots of heavy metals, and does not easily come off skin. One good sink (nevermind the truly dangerous aspect of sinking in something that has a lower specific gravity than I do) would cover quite a lot of skin, and possibly do a good job at giving heavy metal poisoning. I figure I can better enjoy life without that.

If it's just me, wading by myself, I want deep clay, and I want it to be thick! That stuff can have some suction that is UNREAL!

If I'm with the right woman on a hike, I still want the sticky clay, but less than knee deep, and warm. It's fun to watch a woman's muscles play as she pulls one foot and then the other out of the thick stuff!

If I am going to rescue a woman from something, I'd prefer the actual quicksand. (with no clay content, this time) It'd be the FUN way to get to know someone!

[Pixie Cut Lover]

Exotic substances about the consistency of tar but in florescent or metallic colors , shiny purple, pink , orange etc. Often with a kind of rubbery film on the top that will break under the feet sending the girl into the sticky goo underneath.

[Jon Smith]

I appreciate anything, but not the gravel. The sinking spot that I grew up around, had water springs 7 feet in the ground, the soil contained silt, clay, and mud (possibly peat too). The surface would ripple when walked on, you could even jump around on it making bigger ripples, but the surface will break if you stood in the same spot for more than 10 seconds. It is usually hidden under leaves, but this was one of my best sinking spots, which I no longer have access to.

[gamwam]

it has to be nice thick peat,.. not only does it look the part but its the only substance I've ever sunk in (except 1 other) which allows for a really easy and deep total submersion without the annoying buoyance effect of silt based muck like clays etc. - plus its great for diving into head first! with peat I can go all the way under and use a hose to breath like out friend bogyman does on occasion and I can go vertically downwards until my fingers can barely break the surface when I reach up,. im 5ft 9 inches to im guessing my feet would probably be around the 8 feet under mark and my head would be submerged under 2 feet of peat yet im still able to raise my chest enough under the weight of the peat to draw breath through the tube and remain comfortable, in denser substances like clay that just doesn't work, its so much heavier that's it can often be impossible to sink vertically to total submersion and if you do you can forget using a hose or snorkel as its so heavy on your chest it literally constricts the breathing - so peat all the way for me! unfortunately ive moved so far away from my old peat bogs that I thick those days are gone now, was fun while it lasted though

[fp450+7]

Among conventional substances, clay.

Among unconventional substances, snow. Lots of snow.

[barefooter]

Best of mine is clay - that is awesome forever!
But from unusual substances can add deep cow manure!!!! It's real cool too and looks and feel like as hard for going trough and sucking like swamp!

[Sinkman61]

Tidal mudflats are, BY FAR, my favorite substance to go sinking in. First and foremost, tidal mudflats are 100% genuine quicksand. All quicksand contains no less than 3 main ingredients...water, sand, and clay. They percentage of each varies with the location, thus, making for a really wide variety of different types of quicksand. But regardless, those three ingredients will be present. Tidal mudflats add in a 4th ingredient which, when combined with the clay, supercharges the quicksand making it ultra sticky. That’s salt. It more than doubles the amount of suction present which in turn, makes it much harder to escape from. With heavy soled boots, wellness, or some sort of boot-foot wader, you’re chances are getting seriously stuck are multiplied. It can be hard enough trying to escape without such footwear. And while I always insist on wearing some sort of boots to protect your feet from oyster shells, there’s plenty of boot options out there that are far less likely to get you completely trapped. Wetsuit, or scuba diving booties are really about the best choice out there. There’s a lot to love about tidal mudflats. First, they generally cover a really large area. Second, you can find various thicknesses depending where you decide to sink. Third, tidal mudflats are usually deep, and I mean like, way over your head deep. Here the mud is already known to be between 15-25 feet deep along the Intercoastal in NE Florida and SE Georgia. So finding a spot where you can sink down over your head is relatively easy. Getting out because the mud is so damned sticky, well, that’s relatively hard. My favorite sinks are in semi-thick tidal mud that’s up higher on a bank. I’ll put my hands in my pockets and slowly use my legs to do all the sinking. When you put your hands in your pockets, the mud tends to lock your arms tightly against your sides as you sink down, giving yourself a much more “helpless” feeling of being genuinely trapped. And if the mud is the perfect viscosity, then I can sink completely under using nothing other than the pumping motion of my legs. Of course, this requires some seriously strong legs because pumping the legs becomes much harder as the pressure from the mud increases. And when you’re neck deep in tidal mud, there’s some really serious pressure down around your feet. And yet, the suction is still enough that every time you push a foot further down into the mud, you’ll continue to sink slightly more each time you try to pull it back up. Such sinks are rather long and slow as the mud slowly moves up along your body...kinda like being devoured by an Anaconda, complete with the immense pressure squeezing you from every direction. The very best part though, is when that mud is climbing up the sides of your head, locking it in place as it squeezes in and around you as you ever so slowly begin to slip beneath the surface. At that point your entire body is completely encased in the thick mud making it nearly impossible to even move anymore.

[Sinkman61]

Gamwam, you’re right about going under in clay. It’s rea heavy and starts to constrict your breathing. When I go under in tidal mudflats, I’m usually in a slightly thinner area that’s not quite as heavy. Additionally, I only go a few inches under because working yourself back out of tidal mud takes a serious amount of energy. Going under to the point that my raised fingers can barely break the surface is inviting yourself to die from drowning before you can get yourself back to the surface for enough air. Often I’ve sank to the point that the mud was just starting to close in over the top of my face forcing me to constantly move the mud to the sides with my hands in order to maintain an airway....on one particular occasion I was wearing a brand new pair of work boots that I hadn’t even broken in when I was that deep. Only on this particular sink, when I went to start pushing myself higher up in the mud with my legs, I found that I couldn’t move my feet...even the slightest bit other than in one direction...I could still push them DOWN, but the suction was so damned strong that I couldn’t pull them back up. I actually thought that all my sinking had finally caught up as I was in serious trouble. Those new boots were literally holding me down and I had absolutely no means of extracting my feet from them. Additionally, I was by myself in an undisclosed and very private location were nobody could’ve possibly ever seen me (as I was nearly under, someone could’ve been looking in my direction and still wouldn’t have seen me). Thankfully though, I’ve always had the habit of checking the tide charts and making sure I had a good 3-4 hours BEFORE the tide would come back in when I would do my deep sinks, so I knew I was good with the time. So I stayed calm and ever so slowly would slightly lift a foot over and over again...and again, and yet again. It took nearly 15 minutes just to gain about a quarter of an inch in height. After about a half hour I FINALLY managed to get my head to the point that my nose was finally above the level of the mud. Getting out that day took another full hour. To date that’s still, by far, the longest I’ve ever taken to extract myself fully from the mud. It was that sinking experience that really pushed me to finding a better pair of boots to use for sinking. I wanted boots that were literally made for such activities, as if there was such a thing in actual existence. But after a few days of research, I came across the wetsuit dive booties from NRS, in the exact configuration that I would want to have for sinking activities. I know I’ve posted them in here before, but they’re still made and continue to be the best boots I’ve EVER USED FOR GOING SINKING with.

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