buffalo river here i come!!!!

“i am taking my son and going along with 3 other fathers and their sons down to arkansas to float the buffalo between rush and buffalo city....i've never been there, but all the great trip reports that i have read here on tt has got me SUPERPSYCHED!!!!!(well, that and the five cups of coffee i've had this morning!!)


let you all know how it went when i get back sunday!!”

“Does the Buffalo even run in late summer? It's not spring-fed like Missouri streams, is it. That's one river I'd like to float some day - but in March or April.”

“got a good tip for ya. go by walmart and buy a chunk of dry ice. put it in the bottom of your cooler wrapped up in 4 or 5 walmart bags, ,then load the cooler like normal, including regular ice. me and stikmon took this trip a few weeks ago & i still had wet ice after 3 days in the hot sun. stikmon moved his beers to my cooler(where they mysteriously dissappeared)


it's a great trip! if yer into fishing, you can get some keepers(2 smallmouth per day/over 14 inches) but i was enjoying the scenery so much i didn't even bother. lots of long pools & paddlin. i reccomend going downstream to ships ferry when you get to the white river. when we got there they were running all 8 generators & its was pretty much impossible to paddle upstream. if we hadn't gotten towed up the buffalo city, ,we'd have been screwed!”

“you can only float the lower section this time of year. we did a little dragging but not much. then again, we were each soloing a canoe , so gonzo will prolly drag a little more. plus, it's dropped some since then. they'll get their feet wet a few times, but it's such a killer place, it doesn't seem to matter. it's mostly long deep pools and lots of paddling. many people take motors on that section.



gonzo, look for the gigantic alligator gar when you first come into a long black pool....big as yer leg!”

“stratdewd....
are those gars vicious??

they will freak out our kids, i'm sure....(prolly me too!!!)

also, thanks for the tip re: dry ice....i am off to walmart to get some....”

“gonzo you'll have a GREAT time!!!!!

nothing better than floating the Buffawo!

Watch out for those deliverence boys, they like pigs!”

“I just cant wait until my little two get old enought to go on trips!”

“let us know how it went with the gar.....heh heh”

“keep an eye out for the following items:

1 bass trail shoe
1 mesh baseball hat
2 zip off pant legs...I still have the shorts.
1 red head aluminum chair
1 thermarest with chair kit
1 nikon camera
1 binaculars
1 175 gram frisbee

if you recover these items, I would appreciate the return...no reward will be offered, other than my undying gratitude.

Enjoy the place...its steller!

me...Im utah bound in 1 week...”

“Where are you going in Utah?”

“gonna do a day in Zion, a day in Bryce,and then 3 days in Escalante GS...coyote gulch...Gonna be stellar man!!!”

“rubber biscuit?”

“I've not been down south yet, but next year I will for sure. When your in Zion check out Angels Landing not too steep, but some really cool views. Theres also a place called "The Black Hole" somewhere near Lake Powell which I heard is pretty cool. I've heard Coyote Gulch is awesome as well. Make sure you can take some pictures and give us a trip report. I'm sure you will have a great time.”

“hahahahahaha...ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!

New Digital Camera...247 photos, before needing to upload...yeah...I think I can handle a few photos.

Not gonna do Angels Landing...done it already...its a teurist hike. I will find something trailless and with no teurists”

“Then we can expect a bunch of pictures. Saw Angels Landing on OLN one day and thought it would be a cool hike. Again, have a nice trip.”

“this is gonna be a stellar trip, and it should be way too much fun.”

“he just won[t show you for 3 weeks! LMAO!”

“hope the gps still works after the bath it got, plus I had leftover parts after I took it apart to see how it worked...but I'm sure it will work just fine.”

“oh yer a riot!”