Arkansas Y’all!

Choo choo...here comes the derail...

that is the classic finish, but I wouldn’t know how it feels since we rapped from Lunch Ledge.

my first and last multi-pitch lead. I lost confidence in my partner’s attention span .

Folks decided that the chimney at the bottom was 5.6. I think someone’s pride was hurt at some point. If anything the next pitch was what got me with routefinding and rope drag.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled Arkansas travelogue.

 

Yes. My last boat was a Prijon T Slalom. About 12'. I think I purchased it in 1989 and paddled a couple more years before I gave up in about 1996. I was never more than a moderate Class IV paddler - The Numbers on the Arkansas (north of Buena Vista, CO) was at the top of my comfort level. Royal Gorge at moderate flows. Westwater on the CO. I did a few slalom races in Salida and Durango.

I don't see myself rekindling that part of my life, although I am fairly certain I can still roll right handed. Left was always harder. Hips first people! Your head will follow.

 

@Mikie if you get a chance get tickets to watch The Great Passion Play, that is if they are still doing plays. I got to see it long ago when I was like 12. It is really cool and all about the man. My grandparents lived in NE Oklahoma, they took us one summer when we were visiting. No mountain bikes back then. Besides the play/theatre area all I remember is there being a petting zoo, the chapel, and a gift shop.

 

They still do Kevin! Big time. Still have all the critters as well. We will definitely take in the events. Thanks man!
Come on out in the future and do a repeat. You’ll have a place to stay, take in the shows and then hit some awesome evangelical trailiage!

 

Haha herze...I tried to Eskimo roll after not doing it for over 10 years I just got dizzy and disoriented I thought it was like riding a bike but Eskimo rolls can be forgotten.... I used to love kayaking and white water rafting but just too much time commitments when you live in LA... Gave it up for a mountain biking over
20 years ago ... Might have to get back into it...

 

@Mikie , if I come visit, say, for a week to ride during peak humidity, how many showers would I be required to take?

 

I'll go w u...

 

Okay, okay, hang on… I knew this one…
If an electric train was traveling North East at 57 mph, and there was a Southwest headwind, which way would the wind blow?

I would say, one before you go and one when you get back, cuz you have rivers everywhere to jump in, in between. Problem is, they do not accept your Calendar Boy Speedo’s. Yes, hard to imagine! But if’n you are in them they will break out a banjo and be checkin’out yo purdy mowth. Hey boy!

 

KC! You’ll be fine, but I would drive separately…

 

I was under the impression that you never shower.

 

Uhhhhh.....yuck....
But then again he is in the sticks, so there's no one to smell his stink.

 

only one since the south has soft water so the soap never comes off. But eventually you get out and dry off, but you never really dry off. After all that you do not want to repeat. And if you exert a lot of work your shirt and shorts get soaked through totally so it is like carrying a portable shower with you all day.

 

As Walter said, "I took a shower on Monday. Friday - Still not dry. I'm growing moss on my a$$"

 

Mamas makes me mount my pads to the roof rack when driving home from Mother-in Law’s house in the SUV.

 

I’m suggesting @SnakeCharmer was referring to @DangerDirtyD !

 

Yes, he was.

 

Okay, so a few days plinking’ around the house, then back into the mix.

Monday went out meandering along some creeks and rivers. I have always had an obsession to find arrowheads and Arkansas is a place to find them. Even if you don’t find anything it doesn’t really matter. You’re just out and about…






Didn’t find any arrowhead’s but who cares…

 

The young 'uns call it country, the yankees call it dumb
I got my own way of talkin'
But everything is done, with a southern accent
Where I come from

 

Come on... Don't stop with the Arkansas grammar lessons. Is it really a creek or is it a crick?

 

It's a crick. Always and forever.

 

there's beauty in that there crick

 

It’s Tuesday and CJ wanted to hit the water again, so we drove back over to Ponca to hit up the Buffalo River. I was in paying for them to shuttle the truck to the landing and they surprised me that they were not doing the stretch we did last Friday.

The only PR I got was Personal Relaxation…


We had to drive down stream further to launch from Pruitt Landing and do 7+ River miles to Hardy Landing.
The River was slower and deeper in places making for an exceptional laid back float. Although it was a mile shorter than Fridays float, we ended up with about the same amount time on the Buffalo. I think I liked this section even better than the section we did on Friday.

Leaving to go float the Buffalo, this is our view to the left on our 1.8 mile driveway out to the main road.


Dropped in at Pruitt Landing, let the R&R begin!










In other known water sports this would be known as, “Checking the Prop”.


Chomping on a roast beef sandwich on homemade bread and Potato Salad from the Mennonite owned and operated Huntsville Pantry Deli, sitting on the bank of the Buffalo River and watching the traffic jam of kayak’s and canoe’s roll by in peak tourist season.

 

Written creek, but pronounced crick. If it was afar off, it would be yondah.

“The crick is ovah yondah…”

 

Gimme a call if/when you find some. I'll tell you what to do...and if one happens to look like this (with the base "fluted"):

...and is at least 3 inches long, leave it alone and call one of these agencies. At least take a bunch of photos before you pick it up.

• American Indian Center for Arkansas arindianctr.org/
• Arkansas Archeological Survey archeology.uark.edu
• Arkansas Department of Heritage arkansasheritage.com
• Arkansas State Parks arkansasstateparks.com
• Arkansas Tech University Museum atu.edu/museum
• Historic Arkansas Museum historicarkansas.org
• Sequoyah Research Center ualr.edu/sequoyah

 

Written like a true tree hugger!

 

@Mikie @Mikie @Mikie, I know you're the forum owner an' all, but this is exactly how the flames turn into conflagrations.

Or, as they call 'em in Arkansas, conflagrations.

 

You are absolutely correct!
Triple D? Written like a true conservationist!

 

Don’t worry @Mikie , I think your point of view is going to prevail. Oh well.

 

All that water and no fishing pole @Mikie?

 

Wearin' shoes....din't have no big toe to hang it off'n.