Current River Camp/Float

[BarryBobPosthole]

Just got backyesterday after a four day camp and float on the Current River up in Missouri witH Julie’s family. I think we had 11 or 12 campers.Floated on Sunday. No phone service anywhere near the place and man that was nice. We have a really fun family on that side. Julie and I took the grandsons with us. They’re 12 and 8 and the perfect camping age. The weather was perfect, the summersun was bright and hot, the spring fed Current was cold as a withes titty, the food was awesome, and the float was fun. This was Jeremiah’s second float with us and he and I kayaked while Noah road with grandma on a big raft with some others. It has a few challenging places but at normal levels its a pretty nice relaxing pace of a float. The livery place has 500 watercraft and all 500 were on the river Saturday so that was our gravel bar fun day. When we floated Sunday they only had 150 out,
Camping seems like harder work these days. I’m grateful I don’t have to fumble with tent zippers for more than four or five days a year, and bending over to go in and out of the tent is annoying (sorry Bubba). But we made it fun.
Until next year!
BKB

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This is a mill race from a mill built in the mid 1800s. They dammed up a spring that gushes 80 million gallons a day. Must have been quite an operation.

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This is the mill itself. This pic has been on some jigsaw puzzes I’ve works. Alley Springs Mill.

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Another rite of passage, Jeremiah jumping off this big rock like all the rest have done in years past.

[DeputyDog]

Sounds like great trip! I’m sure the grandkids will remember it forever.

I think I’ve seen that mill as a puzzle myself. Pretty cool to say you’ve been there.


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[johnboy]

Pretty country. Sounds like you had a great time.

[Chicken Dinner]

That sure sounds like a high time!


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[Thumper]

I love river float trips. We had many float trips on the Colorado River when I lived in California. We’d all have inner tubes and ropes to keep us grouped. I had a huge tractor tire tube that would hold the super-sized Coleman cooler full of ice and beer. After a few hours of floating, a couple buddies would come with their boats to take us back upriver to the campground. I miss those days.