After hauling in hundreds of truck loads (my toyota pickup) of leaves and grass clippings my bog area paths were still too wet to walk on most of the time. I have built the level of the bog up several feet over the past few years, that is right, several feet. It was still too boggy, so I used some discarded pallets I picked up and made a short path out of them, reminded me of the old sidewalks you see in the muddy streets of old western movies. Then I added mulch on top, it took several applications before it had the effect I wanted, solid footing without sinking. The first few layers would slide on the wood but as the layers built up they became firm. Then I found a lot of boards by the road, looked like someone had redone a deck maybe with lots of steps. So I used those boards to make more walk ways like I did with the pallets, covered them also and now the pathways are doing great. Hope to be able to do the rest of the pathways down in the bog like that eventually. Don't know how long it will take the boards to rot or what the effect will be when they do, I am hoping the paths will have firmed up by then and not go back to being spongy and soggy.
