Notes from Hunter Creek
Your Favorite Swimming Hole Wall Hunter Creek #60
If you like dragging a boat over shoals, and enjoy sweat bees, deer files and horseflies, plan your canoe trip after July 4 and before mid-September. The one advantage to canoeing during these times is that the streams are more temperate and not bone-chilling when you jump in your favorite river or creek. So if…
Read MoreNotes From Hunter Creek 6.29.2017
By Roger Wall Strangers in the Neighborhood The record rainfall and subse-quent wide-spread flooding that this part of the Ozark Plateau experienced in late April, has produced a lot of hardship for people and animals; and has also provided some surprises along the way. In our valley, we have experienced new “strangers in the neighborhood.”…
Read MoreNotes From Hunter Creek 3.23.2017
Lets’ Go Fishing! If you have fished the local streams for a couple of decades, you have noticed that legal-sized keeper game fish are fewer and smaller in recent years. The cause is mainly two-fold: loss of habitat (to include gravel mining), and over-fishing. Therefore, one of the foremost Conservation agencies in the USA, the…
Read MoreNotes From Hunter Creek – Hiking
Hiking Personally, I prefer day hikes to overnight hikes. Toting around a heavy backpack on my shoulders reminds me of U.S. Army days in 1969 and 1970. I never did consider that a form of enjoyable recreation. Again, I prefer hiking without foliage. Three reasons. First, the views are better and trail markings are usually…
Read MoreNotes From Hunter Creek 2.23.2017
Big Bend Park, Part Two In Part One we discussed beautiful hiking areas available in the Big Bend area of south Texas, along the Rio Grande River. We talked about hiking the rim trail in the Chisos Mountains, and hiking up near the summit of Mount Emory at an elevation of just below 8,000 feet.…
Read MoreNotes From Hunter Creek 11.24.2016
The Beauties of Fall I have traveled all over North America –– and have floated, camped, and seen the beautiful spots in every State. I have visited all of the Canadian provinces and territories, except the one most recently created in the northern part of the country “Nunavit”. I have also visited almost all of…
Read MoreNotes From Hunter Creek 11.10.2016
Fall Firearms Season Ready for the Fall Hunting Season: Shooting/Hunting Hours: ½-hour before sunrise to ½ hour after sunset. Archery, including cross-bow this year: from Sept. 15 to Nov. 11 and Nov. 23 – Jan. 15, 2017. During archery hunting, no firearm may be possessed. Fall turkey firearm season: Oct. 1-31, either sex, two-turkeys, any…
Read MoreNotes from Hunter Creek 10.6.2016
FAQs for Canoeing It’s important to realize that as Ozarkians, we reside in the middle of the best stream floating area of the United States if not the world. Occasionally, I am amazed when I run into someone who has lived here for decades, or even a “native,” who has never experienced the navigation of…
Read MoreNotes From Hunter Creek 9.22.2016
Five Kids and a Dog in Search of the Perfect Raft 25th Anniversary of our Epic Trip Okay, we’re loaded and it’s fairly close quarters. The first day is rainy and cloudy and there are hardly any “are we there yet?” questions. So by the time we get to Tucumcari, N.M. we had never…
Read MoreNotes From Hunter Creek 8.10.2016
Summertime in the Mountains, Part I My theory on adventure travel is simple. When the snowflakes are flying thru the Ozarks in February, unlike some who will head to the ski slopes, I am headed for white sand and palm trees. And by early July when deerflies and horseflies have invaded the Ozark streams, I…
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