Kids go mad for mud on course

Speyside children revelled in mud, mud, glorious mud while taking part in an adventure course at the weekend.

Thick brown water rose over some of the competitors’ knees in the Mortlach Mini Mudder event as the determined youngsters crawled through pipes and clambered over bales.

Diggers created ditches in a field in Dufftown as a prelude to the fun, with the fire service adding the water to make the course as slippery as possible.

Uneven ground caught out some of the keen mudders and they lost their footing and splashed into the muck.

Despite the mess, the children’s white teeth could still be seen through their dirty faces as they grinned while bounding over the myriad obstacles.

Candice Geddes organised the event after

“You know what boys are like – they were covered”

testing herself over similar endurance courses in the past.

She said :“The kids absolutely loved it. My daughter had been at the field helping all week and was desperate to get into the mud.

“You know what boys are like – they were absolutely covered. There was mud plastered everywhere. I think it took nearly half an hour in the shower to get my daughters clean.”

After the inaugural event last year, the amount of entrants for Saturday’s event had more than doubled to 250 children.

As well as mud to wade through there were monkey bars, anda spider’s web of cables.

Once the racers had crossed the line, they got their filthy hands on a shiny medal.The event collected nearly £3,000 for playground improvement sat Duff town Primary School.