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SALT LAKE CITY -- A couple ended up in a sticky situation when they tried to go kayaking at Antelope Island Saturday.
Officials say the couple drove their truck to the shoreline to load up their kayaks, but their truck sank into the mud and got stuck. When their friend came to help, his truck also got stuck.
Another friend volunteered to pull both trucks from the mud using a trackhoe, but once he got the other vehicles out, his trackhoe ended up stuck as well.
"You can walk on it -- it seems very firm," says Ron Taylor, manager of Antelope Island State Park. "However, anything with weight, like a vehicle and small, footprint-like tires, won't support that through this two-inch crust and it breaks through. You're in very wet, icky, black mud."
Half the trackhoe ended up under the mud. Crews were still working to get it out Sunday.
