Wild and whimsical machines gathered in Corvallis for the 30th annual Graand Kinetic Challenge, a twoday humanpowered sculpture race over land, sand, mud and water.

Teams dressed in colorful costumes pedaled their homebuilt machines along city streets, bike paths and a manmade sand dune on Saturday. Then on Sunday, they slogged through a 150foot mud bog and float 1.6 miles of the Willamette River, before racing back to the finish at the Benton County Fairgrounds.

The Graand Kinetic Challenge (not a typo) was created by Raan Young and inspired by a similar event in Ferndale, California.

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