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Mighty Mud Mania

Scottsdale, Arizona's Mighty Mud Mania festival for children and teens.

Mighty Mud Mania 2003
Mighty Mud Mania 2003 		Mighty Mud Mania 2004
Mighty Mud Mania 2004 		Mighty Mud Mania 2005
Mighty Mud Mania 2005 		Mighty Mud Mania 2007
Mighty Mud Mania 2007
Mighty Mud Mania 2008
Mighty Mud Mania 2008 		Mighty Mud Mania 2009
Mighty Mud Mania 2009 		Mighty Mud Mania 2010
Mighty Mud Mania 2010 		Mighty Mud Mania 2011
Mighty Mud Mania 2011
Might Mud Mania 2012
Might Mud Mania 2012

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David H 22-Jun-2011 22:33
Great albums, brought back memories - I participated in the first MMM in 1976 when I was 12 years old. Is there an archive anywhere daing back to the first MMM?
dre 23-Mar-2011 10:31
Well its a few days later and to a great joy I found a patch of dirt in between the sod my mom recently placed must have played around in it for an hour then washing my feet is also a fantastic feeling. Ill have to collect as much of it as possible so i can just kinda “use it whenever”.
dre 21-Mar-2011 04:26
Earlier today i was at my friends house (course he lives down the street) and well i was fooling around cause the rest of th kids on our road were having a water ballon fight. So later i noticed another boy barefoot and his feet were all muddy so i went home kicked off my sneakers and rode back on my bike but i thought then what my friends would think of me if i trudged around barefoot in it. Then i had an awsome idea to sit on my bike and stand next to some mud. Then i pretended to slip and stepped in the mud with the most amazing feeling which i did again. Of course later my friend was somewhere else and no one was paying attention so i went ahead and jumped right in it (not litterally though) felt so good. My only true regret is that with desire i found some potting soil to reenact earlier but the dirt was all grainy and not squishy.
Guest 09-Mar-2011 13:33
These girls are hot
Maddie 24-Oct-2010 02:15
I love mud I wish I was there
Guest 24-Oct-2010 02:14
Is there a notherone
Kasey 15-Mar-2009 18:30
Anyone ever lost their pants going through the course? Mine have been tugged down before under the weight of the mud.
Megan 20-Jan-2009 02:55
At mud mania st.louis you are required to go barefoot plus it feels pretty good to have mud squishing between your toes
charlie 27-Mar-2008 21:22
I have never been to this event, but I love running barefoot in the mud. I love feeling mud between my toes and under my feet.
David 05-Mar-2008 07:15
I wish I could be doing this now it looks like it is a lot of fun to do
Barefooter 28-Nov-2007 16:20
This looks like great fun!! And I agree,this must be done with bare feet! Feel the mud squishing between your toes is the best part of it.
Guest 22-Sep-2007 17:48
No, shoes are not required for the obstacle course. In the 2003 gallery there is a kid running the course who is clearly barefoot.
andrew 28-Jul-2007 14:54
will there be mor photos of this years?
Zainudin07-Mar-2007 08:30
Wow! Is this is a yearly event. Lots of fun ya!
Guest 10-Aug-2006 20:47
Any pictures for this year's Mud Mania?
Guest 06-Aug-2006 18:23
What a great time to be a kid!!! In Detroit we have an event called "Mud Day" where the Wayne County Parks Dept. creates a huge mud pit and kids get to come and wallow in it! I took my 14 year old daughter (for the third year in a row) and her best friend and they had a blast! It was fun to see the looks on the kid's faces who had never done it before when they first saw the mud pit. It was like "I can't belive my parents are really letting me do this!" For Mud Day they give awards to the kids who are most covered in mud, so they all smear mud in their hair and everything! It's really cool!!!
Lee 15-May-2006 20:20
I see in some of the photos, there are some kids who are barefoot. If my kids were to show up barefoot (as they always do -- they hate to wear shoes and go barefoot everywhere), would they be denied entrance, or could they go into some of the areas?
Dee 21-Oct-2005 17:53
Mud mania is a lot of fun, There is a mud mania in St Louis, Mo. as well and they not only allow you to go barefoot they require you to. You miss 1/2 the fun not feeling mud squish between your toes. There are no proplems going barefoot at St Louis mud mania and it should be allowed here as well!
Clayton Esterson01-Aug-2005 01:03
Shoes and a permission slip are required for the obstacle course.
Brandon 31-Jul-2005 20:11
We recently had a "mud mania" in St. Louis. Seemed that nearly every kid that participated was barefoot. I noticed from your gallery that nearly every kid in the Arizona "mud mania" had shoes on. I was wondering if that was a requirement of the Arizona "mud mania"? I know that one of the most enjoyable parts of the experience was the mud oozing between the kids toes and sticking to the bottoms of their feet. Just wondering about the difference.
April 28-Jul-2005 16:22
This is going to date this event, but when I was a kid our baby sitter took us to this event every year (that was almost 20 yrs ago). I've been taking my little ones to Mighty Mud Mania for the last 2 years! Looking forward to getting muddy again July 29th, 2005!
Kathy 13-Jun-2005 12:13
I wish that our city here in PA did an event something like this each Spring or Summer! This looks like 100% fun for both the kids and parents who want to be kids again, ha ha! :)
Josh 05-May-2005 20:29
This looks really fun! I wonder what it's like for a parent to watch their kid do this!!! It looks like as many girls like to play in the mud as boys (or maybe even more)! Kind of goes against the old saying "sugar and spice and everything nice". It's cool that girls who love to play with dolls and dress up also like to play in the mud. These pictures really capture the delight of wallowing in a slimey, gooey, oozing mud pit and getting to do something that normally isn't allowed! Do they have events like this in other countries?
Clayton Esterson09-Feb-2005 16:15
There is a link at the top of this page with information about this fun in the mud!
Sonja 09-Feb-2005 14:49
Is there anyway I can get in touch with the person(group) who runs this incredible event? I live in a small town where the kids have absolutely NOTHING to do. I would love to get something like this started. Just looking for some information. My e-mail address is esko71@verizon.net. Thank you any info would be GREATLY appreciated.
Jeff 06-Feb-2005 01:26
Oh yes, this certainly looks like fun. My niece would love that mud!!
Nice pictures.
Tine Verheyden24-Jul-2004 23:06
Fun fun fun
brian 06-Jul-2004 23:21
looks like a lot of fun.do they have this for adults
Guest 19-Mar-2004 08:07
Oh wow, lol! This looks so fun. I wish I were there.
Guest 04-Oct-2003 03:10
great series of photos, thanks (hope you kept the camera clean)
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