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Tomorrow morning, when Michael Clark of Big Muddy Adventures, John Ruskey of Quapaw Canoe Company, David Hanson, adventure journalist, and Mark Peoples, a 1Mississippi River Guide intern, put their paddles into the Bourbeuse River at the Union, Missouri boat ramp, after having begun in Washington, MO, and [...]

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ow, was this past weekend a bit of a tease or what? With way above average temperatures and two kiddos fighting a severe case of “cabin” fever, Ryan and I decided it was time to hit the hiking trails.

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By Jo Schaper
This week, according to a short, unattributed story on STL Today, the city of Valley Park has expressed interest in taking over ownership of Simpson Park, which is within the city limits.
Few details have been [...]

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Photos and captions courtesy of Shea Bergman, Missouri Dept. of Conservation.
How do you take 33 Urban Ranger Corps inner city youth (and six of their leaders)* on a three-day, 48-hour canoe trip with two nights of camping on the Current River?
Ask Shea Bergman, Steve Jacobsen, Brandon Pope and Pat Whalen of the [...]

ShareIt’s always nice when you open up a publication and see people you know. It’s even nicer when they are being recognized for contributions to the maintenance of the natural world.
Last night I opened up my copy of the fall Missouri Resources, (formerly the Resource Review) a quarterly free publication of the Missouri [...]

ShareThe Missouri River 340 river race, which was scheduled to run in July, will be held Oct. 11-15, according to race organizer Scott Mansker. The race from Kansas City to St. Charles was postponed this summer because of severe flooding on the river.ace organizers attempted to replace the race with the Kansas 150 from Manhattan, [...]

ShareBeing outside when lightning strikes can be deadly, as we were reminded again this weekend with the untimely death of a young woman canoeing on the Gasconade River, according to this story STL Today But what can you do? They were trying to do the correct thing: get off the river or lake during [...]

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by Jo Schaper
As the story about John Wesley Powell in the July Traveler hints at, I’ve always secretly wanted to paddle the Colorado River. When the opportunity came up a week ago to run Colorado whitewater through part of Glenwood Canyon, above and through Glenwood [...]

ShareWhen you come down the big Highway 19 hill into Steelville anytime this summer and fall before Halloween you’re in for an eye-candy treat.
By Jo Schaper
First there were cow sculptures roaming the streets of Chicago. Now, Steelville in Crawford County, the self-proclaimed “Floating Capital of Missouri,” has a flotilla of colorful half canoes floating [...]

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Unless you are one of the people who truly enjoy walking raft to raft across a river without getting your feet, three-day holidays are always problematic when it comes to float trips.
Jo, her husband Eugene, and two brothers, Bill and Dan Schaper, are amongst those people who would prefer a little peace and [...]