Let's offroad / mountain bike / mtb / ride dirt

Surely the whole point of mountain biking is mud? Some of my favourite memories as a kid are steep downhills that are so muddy that you have to get off and walk the worst bits. And trying to plough through 30 ft long puddles that turn out to be 2 ft deep with lots of soft mud at the bottom. To my mind you haven't been MTBing unless washing clothes is a three stage process - hose clothes down whilst still wearing them; hand wash to make them washing machine safe; washing machine.

Anyway, I'll be downloading and riding those routes I reckon, so close to home.

Hmm...maybe I'm just a jessy mtb'er then! Or been listening to my wife who was a big mtb'er at home in NZ - she doesn't understand my idea of mtb in the winter + road in the summer!