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First a Thank you to those who responded to my post about floating the Missouri river. Now for the story. We left on friday morning and made the 3 hour drive to Judith landing where we left my brothers car. Then we moved up to Coal Banks landing and unloaded the canoes and gear. It took us about 20 minutes to get everything in the canoes and into the river. The first day we only managed to get in 10 miles in about three hours. We weren't paddling very hard but the river was moving about 11,000 cfs. We camped at the Eagle creek campground that evening, we only had to share it with 4 other people that camped at the other end of the campgroun, didn't even know they were there until we left the next morning. While we were at Eagle creek we did a little fishing, one of the boys had 20lb test line snapped like it was nothing, the other had his hook straightened. We never saw either fish. The next day the river had come up and was moving much faster, about 13,000 cfs this made that days trip alot easier. We finished 21 miles in a little under 5 hours, and camped at Slaughter river campground. On the way we had gotten bored with the placid water and were searching for waves to go bouncing over. We saw one that was about 2 feet wide at the head of it and thought it might give us a good ride. We decided to try to go over the top, as we approached we noticed that the wake was moving up river faster than we were moving downriver, needless to say we decided not to run over whatever was causing the wake. Once again due to the mud we were unable to see what was causing the wake. The third and final day was rather uneventful, we had a water fight and learned a lesson about team work and manueverability, when the largest canoe tried to catch the smallest canoe.

I have pictures posted on my blog at http://stansclansjourney.blogspot.com/
please feel free to go and take a look.

Stan
 
Yes we saw a few muley does, particularly around the Holer in the Wall campground.

Stan
 
Glad you had fun. Next time you need to travel further down the River. The wildlife gets better.
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