Careless Driving Ticket for Mudding

My question involves a careless driving ticket from the State of Minnesota. I was out a couple nights this week bored and nothing to do. Me and my friends decide to go out and go Muddin. If you don't know what muddin is its where you bring your truck to a wet and muddy place and you drive through it to make your truck dirty. We were doing this for a couple nights this past week with out getting caught by anyone. We end up going back one more night to go through the mud hole a couple times, but when we get there all the mud is dried up. My friend wants to go to another place just down the road but he ends up getting stuck there. No one can get him out and that is when the cops show up. The officer see's my truck all dirty and asks where we were for my truck to get that way. I tell him we were down the road in behind this construction zone. Since they didn't catch me in the act of driving carelessly can they charge me with this? Could I fight this and get it dropped?

You confessed, and your vehicle was covered with mud. What more do you think they need?

You should check the elements of the statute or ordinance charged, to see if what you did actually fits the statute or ordinance.

The police ended up charging me with reckless driving. I have checked the statute and in it, it says "Any person who drives any vehicle in such a manner as to indicate either a willful or a wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property is guilty of reckless driving". On my ticket there is a box that can be checked whether or not there was life/property being endangered, it was not checked. Is this right? Plus the address on the ticket doesn't match up to the place I was Mudding at.