Camping At Ozark

[bobber]

heading to the ozark campground,off hwy 7 floating fri, and sat, maybe sun too! come for all of it, or just the good parts....there will be a good sized group from the arkansas canoe club. so if you want just show-up "a good time will be had by all"

[bobber]

it's hard to plan at trip you start off with sunny and 65 temps and end it 23 degrees and blowing sleet

[snagged in outlet 3]

Did you go? Details Man, details.

SIO3

[bobber]

well yes, i went ? it was a ball! it started off friday morning in thick fog! and that made for a fun ride over the mountain and thru the woods. got to ozark campground and met up with two others for are float. we shuffled boats and took off to eurbie( the water was below the curb.) so picking the right path way was key, other wise you needed to push thru the gravel, it was right at a min. flow i would say. about 10 the sun popped out and boy that was nice!at lunch we pulled up to a rock ledge, and off came the layers! (we looked like river turtles sunning ) so back to the canoes, and down river we go! saw 4 eagles 2 in tree tops and 2 flying. and a big doe walking in the stream, an otter in the water, and all kinds of beaver sign . found two large trails where the elk cross the river but never saw any.around 2 it clouded over, and cooled off, and back on with the layers. got back to the takeout about 4, and all of our group hadn't made it yet. so while a couple of guys ran to pick-up cars and trucks, i helped set up tents. right at dark 30 ,cars and people started to show up we had 15 for sat. and nine stayed to float on sat. am run the weather was looking bad from the weather station. but it held off for are whole trip.... or at least untill we were all loaded and going back to ozark from hasty. and then the wind and cold made a return.....we had gusts that blew everything off the table tops!some even had to use logs to keep tents in place. then it started to rain! maybe an hour, then turned into sleet,and that turned to snow! and then the bottom dropped out ... bone chilling cold! took some time for coffee, we had to thaw water . but first we had to chip water bottles out of the coolers that were rock hard. the people that laid out there wet paddling stuff found them rock hard in the morning.. all in all it was truely a great time !

[Ham]

So how was the fishing?

[bobber]

didn't fish..http://good-times.webshots.com/slideshow/561789830wgvaqv

[Ham]

Gee Whiz Bob I thought ou were a canoer rather than a yaker.

[bobber]

no Ham, the word is PADDLER !! WHEN YOU HAVE A FLEET!