This is an early evening picture taken while exploring the mud flat of Crater Island, Utah. I was checking the mud to see if it had dried out enough to allow hiking, which I planned to do the following morning. The condition of the mud was good.

Two weeks earlier I tried hiking here with a handcart and had to abort the trek because the wet mud clung to the handcart's tires, making travel a nightmare. With the knowledge that the mud would co-operate this time, I planned to get revenge for the earlier disappointment.

The tire tracks are not mine and I don't know how old they are.