Stealing a Winter Paddle on the Buffalo
23 Jan
We enjoyed THIS story in Missouri’s Springfield News-Leader about a group of paddlers who took advantage of a warm January day to steal a trip down Arkansas’ Buffalo River in winter.
With weather in the upper 60s, the group floated a 10 mile stretch of the Buffalo National River from Ponca to Kyle’s Landing. Prepared against a unplanned dip in the still-cold water, the opportune paddlers finished the trip largely dry … and warm.
One of the few remaining rivers in the lower 48 states without dams and the first federally designated National River, the Buffalo cuts its way through massive limestone bluffs in the Arkansas Ozark. We’ve paddled the Buffalo in springtime — which really isn’t that far off, you know — and found it a most pleasant place to dampen the hull of a canoe.
The Buffalo National River web site can be found HERE.
