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I am part of a group that will be at the Current River 10/15 to 10/19. We will camp at Pulltite and do day trips. We self shuttle. Most will arrive on 10/15, and paddle 10/16, 10/17, 10/18 and depart on 10/19. Anyone is welcome to join us, we are a pretty easy group. Jim Moody joined us last year for a day and I don’t think we scared him too bad. Last fall we had a small group but looking like we’ll have more folks this year and some new folks as well. My husband Rob and I will be in site 23.
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No this is not an organization. This is a group that started in 2001. My husband and I found them in 2006. We get together in the spring and fall. We post on paddling.net and it’s called the Ozark Rendezvous, so anyone is welcome. We have had paddlers come from all over the county. One is from Alaska. At the height of the group we had about 35 paddlers but over the years people have aged out, died or found other interest but a few of us keep it going.
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Dorine Johnson dorine.trappers2022@gmail.com I would like to join
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I am also interested in going on this trip, fits into my schedule nicely. I see campground site availability is still pretty good.
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I don’t think anyone knows right now but I see lot’s of opinions. LOL
I have been watching the Current River, Jacks Fork & Eleven Point River (Missouri Scenic Rivers) board on FB and Bill O’Donnell said he was going to do some checking.
I saw this posted about the Eleven Point – I called the Eleven Point/Doniphan Ranger district to ask specifically about the Greer Crossing campground, they said they are working today to close it down, and the gates will be closed. So at the very least, within the Mark Twain National Forest, the accesses that have gates will be closed.
I haven’t received anything from Recreation.gov and this morning it looked like you could still make a reservation. But my reservation didn’t start until 10/15 so that is still 2 weeks away.
The only really issue if they do keep camping open is the bathrooms, will they keep those open or close them? There is a pit toilet at the back of the campground by the group sites.
I think right now we just don’t know and we’ll be keeping an eye on it and of course I’ll post once I know more or if anyone else hears something please share the info.
This is the link posted on National Parks that does talk about contingency plans, but I think this could always be subject to change- https://www.doi.gov/shutdown?fbclid=IwY2xjawNKrJhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhDi1i_ekwBpenc1KGeTyQPo-QDzpQ1yufzmXBCwGhhU4o9YjEY5BGIs9sBO_aem_0-5dhu9mQZwu1Z4ygTZ6cw
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Yeah, I’m not sure. I know they have this message out there – you may not be able to complete a reservation for any time in the future or complete a purchase for some passes during the lapse-in-funding period. i haven’t received any cancellation for my reservation starting on the 15th at this point.
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I just wanted to post an update that our trip is still a go for next week. I have received some additional information that the recreation.gov website is working and taking reservations, if you have issues the suggestion was to update the app. Rangers (these are the law enforcement rangers) do have a list of reservations and are checking and ticketing people who are trying to camp for free, my understanding is this has been happening at Alley Spring. Since the signal at Pulltite is not great it was suggested to me by this person to have a printed copy of your reservation. If anyone is interested in joining and can’t get the reservation website to work please reach out to me and I will see if anyone in the group who already doesn’t have two tents on a site can accommodate another tent. As the rule is 2 tents, 6 people. I already have 2 tents on my site. My cell is 3143686336
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I realized I had responded back in August about this trip on a different site but had never said anything here as well. I am planning on going, and I will probably be there Wednesday night, site 27.
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Shelly,
I do not know what we’ll paddle Thursday as we typically discuss as a group the evening before. If you are only staying Wednesday night you can park on my site 23 as my girlfriend JoAnne isn’t arriving until Thursday afternoon. Site 25 is also someone in the group, his name is Pat, you can probably just park in between our sites as they are pretty large. If you are staying longer I’m sure we can find somewhere else for you to park or just stay in between me and Pat as I don’t think anyone else is staying with Pat at 25.I am arriving Wednesday early afternoon to set up camp but we will not be there in the evening as we have family in Eminence and we are going to have dinner with them on Wednesday evening but plenty of others will be there. Look forward to meeting you.
Pam
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Pam I will not be there in time to paddle with you all on Friday. I will plan to paddle on Saturday, and if anyone doesn’t need to head home early on Sunday, I would be available for paddling Sunday.
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