I used to mountain bike a lot, I'd like to get back into it. There are woods behind our house that I can ride in, even some trails, but 75% of the time most of the ground is VERY soft- as in, "sink up to the ankle and lose your boot" soft. Is the answer a Fat Bike? It's not as if I can't get a regular XC bike through with careful line choice, but it would be nice if I didn't have to tiptoe around the swampy bits for a week and a half following every rain storm.
In general, a fat bike will help with, but not really prevent, sinking into soft terrain. If the ground is really so soft you'd have trouble walking on it, a fat bike won't be much better, if any.
Hmmm, maybe I'd be better off just getting creative with some scrap wood and old pallets to cross the worst of the soft areas then.
I've seen pallets used to bridge over low spots that don't collect water. It's a quick solution. One trail system I ride at has 100' long bridges for crossing chronically wet areas.
You don't live far from Lake Nockamixon State Park. There is a fun trail system there, although it is often closed when wet (doesn't drain well).
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