ShareTraveler’s annual June Float Trip Edition will be out before Memorial Day, just in time to kick off the summer outdoor recreation season.
Can floaters and power boaters get along? Jo Schaper interviews the Missouri Water Patrol, St. Louis Canoe and Kayak members and boat dealer Joe Troutt for some surprising answers to this question.
Looking for [...]

ShareIt’s spring and an outdoors person’s fancy turns to thoughts of river gages.
Since many Traveler readers have the same obsession Jo does about river and lake water levels…whether for floating, floods, to know if you can get into your own driveway or sheer curiosity, I’m listing a few online river gage pages:

Shareby Jo Schaper
A lot of ink has been spilled and bits generated in the last few years promoting Richard Louv’s book, “Last Child in the Woods,” in which he diagnoses “nature deficit disorder” as rampant in American children with their overscheduled, overly “enriched” and generally electronically frentic young lives, leaving little time [...]

ShareThanksgiving is traditionally the time when people went to Grandma’s, or if you were a grandma, you knocked yourself out making delicious food.
Getting there and back was half the fun. To celebrate that, here’s a picture of the old hog-trough bridge over Courtois Creek north of Highway 8 between Potosi and Steelville, from a 1960s [...]

Share Ozark National Scenic Riverways will host a “Canoe and Kayak Clinic” event at Round Spring on Thursday, August 5 and Friday, August 6, 2010. There will be a morning session beginning at 9:00 a.m. and ending at 11:30 a.m. each day. The afternoon sessions start at 12:30 p.m. and end at 3:00 [...]

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Jo Schaper
Sometimes being high on a Google search isn’t a good thing.
If you Google E. coli (Escherichia coli—a bacterium common in the guts of warm blooded mammals, but also present in fish and reptiles) as I did on 7/27/10, the fourth link on the list is the Missouri state park system.
The Missouri [...]

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Jo Schaper
“I’ve done my duty,” said brother Bill. “I got an employee of an outdoor magazine actually to go outdoors.”
I’m really not that bad.
Earlier the week before, Bill sent out the call for a float trip. My sister and her offspring declined, saying that they had to wait until after the season was over. [...]

ShareDear Traveler:
My wife and I are very pleased that the Traveler clearly continues the Bob Todd tradition of advocating for the protection of Ozark National Scenic Riverways from really destructive abuse, no matter who the perpetrators may be among the varieties of users or managers.
As a canoe/floaters on the Rivers since well before the [...]

ShareNow you can receive instant, customized updates about water conditions by subscribing to WaterAlert, a new service from the U.S. Geological Survey. Whether you are watching for floods, interested in recreational activities or concerned about the quality of water in your well, WaterAlert allows you to receive daily or hourly updates about current conditions in [...]

ShareBy Jo Schaper
“Without bloodshed,” was one person’s answer to what he wanted to get out of the recent workshop of varied stakeholders to discuss the proposed alternatives in the new Ozark National Scenic Riverways General Management Plan.
That’s according to Doug Warren, Reynolds County Commissioner, who attended as a representative of the Current River Smallmouth Association. [...]