JEFFERSON COUNTY FAIR: Mud drags spin up fun

Published 1:30 am Sunday, August 13, 2023

Richard Bauden of Port Angeles, left, in a 2000 Dodge, gets edged out for second place by Poulsbo’s Carl Jantz, driving a 1942 Willys Jeep during the Jefferson County Fair in Port Townsend on Sunday. Jantz won the 2014 Alaska Offroad Warriors reality competition off-road race with this vehicle, which covered 1,100 miles from south to north to the Arctic Ocean. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
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Richard Bauden of Port Angeles, left, in a 2000 Dodge, gets edged out for second place by Poulsbo’s Carl Jantz, driving a 1942 Willys Jeep during the Jefferson County Fair in Port Townsend on Sunday. Jantz won the 2014 Alaska Offroad Warriors reality competition off-road race with this vehicle, which covered 1,100 miles from south to north to the Arctic Ocean. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Richard Bauden of Port Angeles, left, in a 2000 Dodge, gets edged out for second place by Poulsbo’s Carl Jantz, driving a 1942 Willys Jeep during the Jefferson County Fair in Port Townsend on Sunday. Jantz won the 2014 Alaska Offroad Warriors reality competition off-road race with this vehicle, which covered 1,100 miles from south to north to the Arctic Ocean. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
Richard Bauden of Port Angeles, left, in a 2000 Dodge, gets edged out for second place by Poulsbo’s Carl Jantz, driving a 1942 Willys Jeep during the Jefferson County Fair in Port Townsend on Sunday. Jantz won the 2014 Alaska Offroad Warriors reality competition off-road race with this vehicle, which covered 1,100 miles from south to north to the Arctic Ocean. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
Rebel Lewis, 6, takes her Tau 125 on a run of the mud course during the Jefferson County Fair on Sunday. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Mud in your Eye

Richard Bauden of Port Angeles, left, in a 2000 Dodge, gets edged out for second place by Poulsbo’s Carl Jantz, driving a 1942 Willys Jeep during the Jefferson County Fair in Port Townsend on Sunday. Jantz won the 2014 Alaska Offroad Warriors reality competition off-road race with this vehicle, which covered 1,100 miles from south to north to the Arctic Ocean.

At right, Rebel Lewis, 6, takes her Tau 125 on a run of the mud course during the Jefferson County Fair on Sunday.

Steve Mullensky (2)/for Peninsula Daily News

Richard Bauden of Port Angeles, left, in a 2000 Dodge, gets edged out for second place by Poulsbo’s Carl Jantz, driving a 1942 Willys Jeep during the Jefferson County Fair in Port Townsend on Sunday. Jantz won the 2014 Alaska Offroad Warriors reality competition off-road race with this vehicle, which covered 1,100 miles from south to north to the Arctic Ocean. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Rebel Lewis, 6, takes her Tau 125 on a run of the mud course during the Jefferson County Fair on Sunday. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Rebel Lewis, 6, takes her Tau 125 on a run of the mud course during the Jefferson County Fair on Sunday. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

By Michael Carman

Peninsula Daily News