For at least a handful of the 2,500 persons attending the Mountain Mud Festival Saturday, the event was a classrooom exercises.
Jake Dahlenburg of Sweet Home was there shooting three rolls of film for his black and white photography class at Linn-Benton Community College.
The sophomore attends the festival every year, usually to help out at the Kiwanis concessions stand.
Kyle Thorson and a half dozen buddies from Battle Ground High School in Battle Ground,…