Guided rides around Epping Forest ( aka Follow the strange tall man into the woods )

Took my 16 nephew for a spin round there today, me on 'cross him on 29er. I like Epping in the rain as the mud is wet enough to not grip your tyres and jam everything up. Proper boggy though and I saw my rear wheel in my peripheral vision more than once, especially descending through Hawk Wood.

I managed to keep up purely by having mud2 fitted to my bike and an intermediate tyre fitted to his so he had no grip. It's not cheating because I offered him a set of mud tyres for his bike but being 16 I knew he wouldn't bother fitting them.