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Ok, so my brother calls me the other day from Albuquerque and want to plan this years current river trip,(we go every year), Anyways, I’m thinkin’ I’ve been here for a couple of weeks and haven’t produced anything, so here goes:
For those of you who don’t know the Current river is a spring fed crystal clear, beautiful stream that runs right through the Ozark Mountains and eventually ends up at, you guessed it, the Lake of the Ozarks. The location is kind of remote, ummmm, ok that’s a understatement, Have you guys ever seen “Deliverance” with Robert Redford? Yep it was filmed close to this part of Missouri. Don’t let that scare you off, keep reading.
Its kind of hard to put into words how much fun this place can be, but imagine this, , how about a place where you can go with your wife and kids, grandparents, grandkids, people you like, and people you don’t . I know what your thinking “sounds like Church”, but just wait I just getting warmed up. Now Imaging everybody having fun., beer in hand, beer in each hand, kind of fun.
this is a pretty typical scene of one of the “hot spots”
Ok I know, I posted this in the meets and events and I am getting there, These are not mine I just happened across them:
So I was thinking this would be a great place for a meet. Do not be swayed by my promises of canoe after canoe load of college girls getting their drink on. Peeling off clothes to stay cool, or even the caves, cliff diving, or doing all the above with your three year old boy in the canoe having a blast too, (at least mine did last year) +(my brothers four year old). I have seen ppl bring their dogs, cats and even a hoarse or two. Everybody has fun.
Well I like a big grand finale, so without further adu,,, o , wait a minute, I forgot something,, If you are coming from the north you will drive right by this:
Its pretty close.
Back to the point, you all might be asking yourself why the heck you would want to drive all the to BFE for canoeing when this is a auto forum, well that’s what I have saved till the end, the DRIVE!!!!!! The roads through this part of the country are some of the best mountain roads that I have seen. It does not seem to matter if you are driving a bicycle or a bulldozer, I feel like a formula 1 driver on those roads, top speed is about fifty, the speed limit is fifty five. Now I cannot testify the drive up from the south, but the drive down will have any girl begging you to slow down. Literally, unbelievable. If you’r into that sort of thing.
Well there is a lot of stuff I have left out (I didn’t want waste a lot of time on a dumb idea) ummm…O
Peak season is the standard Memorial day to Labor day. We will be going in July, witch weekend is still up in the air.
Cost: Camp site rental, 7-10usd. Canoes 40-50usd. It’s the most bang for the buck that I know of, I figure about 100 per person, from walking out the door to pulling back in the drive. But I buy a LOT of beer.
This is probably where we will stay this year: http://www.jadwincanoe.com/map.html
So thanks for reading, I hope everyone has a good week. Peace
For those of you who don’t know the Current river is a spring fed crystal clear, beautiful stream that runs right through the Ozark Mountains and eventually ends up at, you guessed it, the Lake of the Ozarks. The location is kind of remote, ummmm, ok that’s a understatement, Have you guys ever seen “Deliverance” with Robert Redford? Yep it was filmed close to this part of Missouri. Don’t let that scare you off, keep reading.
Its kind of hard to put into words how much fun this place can be, but imagine this, , how about a place where you can go with your wife and kids, grandparents, grandkids, people you like, and people you don’t . I know what your thinking “sounds like Church”, but just wait I just getting warmed up. Now Imaging everybody having fun., beer in hand, beer in each hand, kind of fun.
this is a pretty typical scene of one of the “hot spots”
Ok I know, I posted this in the meets and events and I am getting there, These are not mine I just happened across them:
So I was thinking this would be a great place for a meet. Do not be swayed by my promises of canoe after canoe load of college girls getting their drink on. Peeling off clothes to stay cool, or even the caves, cliff diving, or doing all the above with your three year old boy in the canoe having a blast too, (at least mine did last year) +(my brothers four year old). I have seen ppl bring their dogs, cats and even a hoarse or two. Everybody has fun.
Well I like a big grand finale, so without further adu,,, o , wait a minute, I forgot something,, If you are coming from the north you will drive right by this:
Its pretty close.
Back to the point, you all might be asking yourself why the heck you would want to drive all the to BFE for canoeing when this is a auto forum, well that’s what I have saved till the end, the DRIVE!!!!!! The roads through this part of the country are some of the best mountain roads that I have seen. It does not seem to matter if you are driving a bicycle or a bulldozer, I feel like a formula 1 driver on those roads, top speed is about fifty, the speed limit is fifty five. Now I cannot testify the drive up from the south, but the drive down will have any girl begging you to slow down. Literally, unbelievable. If you’r into that sort of thing.
Well there is a lot of stuff I have left out (I didn’t want waste a lot of time on a dumb idea) ummm…O
Peak season is the standard Memorial day to Labor day. We will be going in July, witch weekend is still up in the air.
Cost: Camp site rental, 7-10usd. Canoes 40-50usd. It’s the most bang for the buck that I know of, I figure about 100 per person, from walking out the door to pulling back in the drive. But I buy a LOT of beer.
This is probably where we will stay this year: http://www.jadwincanoe.com/map.html
So thanks for reading, I hope everyone has a good week. Peace
three canoeing and one sight seeing. Plus there was a lot more ppl than I origanllly expected. All the better. I think there was fourteen all togeather, all family. We did Jacks Fork the first day, (for the first time), a good time, but wasent enough white water for me. Babtist Camp is "The Show" if I remember right I think the guy told us we could go even higher than that. Not in to Montauk, thats illegal, but closer to the "top" than Babtist camp.
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