All off road movement was virtually impossible because the wet and boggy terrain had recently been ploughed and planted with first shoots starting to appear.
Napoleon was defeated because he had to fight two armies with one, attacking an army in an excellent defensive position through wet and muddy terrain.
Such weight, as well as the uneven and wet terrain, would have caused hoof problems.
They use their long arms and legs to negotiate wet and unstable terrain and also to dig up roots.
Slender loblolly pines poke through the flat, wet terrain, like celery stalks wedged into a marshy bog.
Prior to this period, the people of the Landes used stilt-walking to move from place to place in the wet terrain.
Factors related to the accident were: Dark night and the soft and wet (marshy) terrain conditions in the emergency landing area.
They traveled for hours over wet terrain unbroken by civilization.
They did not sink into mud in the wet terrain of the northern woods where ordinary wagon wheels would get mired in the spring thaw.
These ancient rock ridges became valuable routes that snake through the thick forests and across wet and difficult terrain.