Ok, we've all been to sites that were muddy but this one proved to be the mother of them all.  Even as we arrived people where using their winches to get into the car park.  Two Land Rovers were trying to recover the burger van (got to get your priorities right!) from the approach road.  It was like looking across a WW1 battlefield with the thick sticky clay bogging everyone down.

Only nutters were actually out on the site.  Sorry we didn't get many pictures but like everyone else we spent most of the day trying to extract ourselves from the stickiest mud hole I've ever seen.

Once we'd bellied out in this sticky stuff it was impossable to get any movement in any direction. 

In the end it took two 9000lbs winches and full throttle to break free of the suction.  I'd never seen anything like it before.

With water soaking in around my feet, steam erupting from the engine and two great winches pulling on the rear I felt sure something would give. The straining sounds were amazing!

What was really need was the vehicle that mad the tracks in this picture!

Once out it was time to inspect the damage which originally appeared to be just dirt but we later found that the bottom half of the radiator core was clogged with clay that set rock hard causing it to split.  My 8000 lbs Warn winch met the same fate with the motor being immersed in the muck and shit causing it to short and burn out!

Both my headlights were full of muck and needed replacing.... all I can say is thank God for the snorkel.  Well you can't have a day's off-roading in the UK without mud but this was just too much and even after a full power wash for weeks great clobs of dry clay would fall off every time we hit a bump.