The roads were soon getting muddy and rutted. Howe's army found it nearly impossible to follow Washington over the rutted, muddy roads. Soil conditions can be hard-packed, soft, muddy, sandy, rutted, or any combination thereof. Other electric vehicle entrants managed only 7 miles distance through the muddy, rutted course. Travel by horseback, wagon, or carriage was exceedingly limited due to deeply rutted, rocky roads. At first the Grand River Road was a "deep rutted, ditch bordered road". Today, Peratallada is known for its beautiful old stone buildings, rutted stone streets and passageways. The runway rutted and became more hazardous than ever.