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, [...]

ShareWhen the river floods, and you want to paddle, ya do what ya gotta do.
The organizers of the Missouri River 340 have had to shorten and move the race upstream in order to hold it at all.
By Jo Schaper
Regretfully, that means to Kansas. The race, which has started from Kaw Point in [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

ShareThis is a followup to the report on the Missouri River 340, an annual human-powered paddlesport event which goes from Kaw Point in Kansas City the width of Missouri to the finish line in St. Charles. More background about the race can be found in yesterday’s post.
The team Easy Living, with paddlers West Hansen, of [...]