Best Campsites

[Forsythian]

Hello all-

I've camped on the Point a few times now between Greer and Turner. Always at the first big bluff you run into facing the west. Above the first huricane creek. There is a big hole and a spot of sand on the opposite side. I plan on camping within the next two weeks and was wondering how that site looks and if it still big enough for a few tents and a campfire.

thanks

Koso, that spot is still there, and looked pretty good from the boat. I wound up camping upstream from it...

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Speaking of campsites...drove through Greer on my way to the Thayer/Valle football game last Saturday and saw all kinds of deer camps along hwy 19 on the east side of the river. I said something to my brother, who was driving, about stopping in Alton to pick up some Don's crawdads but the looks I got from the teenage girls riding in the back seat gave me the impression that they thought I was crazy!!! Did get them to stop at Grandma's Kitchen for a nice lunch instead of eating fast food somewhere in Thayer!!! I would think hwy J would have maybe even more deer camps along it. Anybody know how these people hunt not knowing where other hunters might be and does anybody hunt up and down the river??? Seems to me like it would make fishing less peaceful! BTW, #10 for Thayer, the QB, was way too much for valle. Keep the fishing reports coming!!!!

[Aaron J Scott]

It's not quite roughing it, but I have some very fond memories of camping at Boze Mill. I went down on a church camp float a couple times back in junior high, and on one trip we ran into all kinds of fun. Like when one of the locals threatened one of the campers by saying he'd throw them in the spring and no one would ever find the body. Or when another local – who was obviously homesteading, having pitched a pretty elaborate campsite – frightened some other campers by toting a rifle around and bathing (in the primitive, buck naked sense) near our camp. After talking to him, our crew got suspicious and so my dad and my pastor got in the canoe – after sundown, mind you – and floated down to Riverton and called the sheriff's department from Hufstedler's. Turns out they had multiple warrants on him, so later they came out and picked him up. And our crew, being the good chruch-going kids that we are, helped break down his campsite. Not sure how much of that wound up in an evidence locker ...

It's an incredible shame that I haven't been back there. My dad and I have, in the last two years, twice failed to get a trip scheduled. Now that I have a greater interest in rivers and their inhabitants, I'm anxious to get down there.

[Aaron J Scott]

Also: the best blackberries I've ever had were up around the spring at Boze Mill.