“Do you have Mud Season where you live?”
Where I live I can cross 600 miles. A dozen mountain ranges, canyons, deserts, alkalai flats, hot springs, while only touching pavement to cross it 4 times. There is still snow in July above 9000 feet, and there can be walls of wildflowers some years. Many months of the year (like now)great swaths of land are impassable due to mud. Though not the kind of mud you are prolly thinking of...you get stuck in this mud you may be walking for days. Some of the most awe inspiring sights in the world, though most will never see them
Sounds kinda dry.
I drove a short distance yesterday down a road that looked good but seemed to be made of a mixture of sand and very wet Bentonite thawed out to about two inches deep. It was nasty.