I wonder why so many vid's are shot in the wet / mud lately?
I think a lot of it is because of location. Northwest has had one of the soggiest spring/summers I've ever seen. You expect coastal PNW to be wet but not the semi-arid Okanagan/Okanogan, Kootenays down through E Wash/N Idaho/E Oregon. There's still spring around here where it would normally be tinder-dry like CO.