Category: mr340
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Kaw Point to St. Charles, mile by mile — Part 9: Klondike to the Finish
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Klondike is the last checkpoint the MR340 puts on the water. It sits at river mile 56, and below it the course runs twenty-seven more river miles to the finish at St. Charles, river mile…
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Kaw Point to St. Charles, mile by mile — Part 8: Hermann to Klondike
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Below Hermann, the Missouri River gives MR340 racers one long run with nothing required in the middle of it. Hermann is an official checkpoint at river mile 98. The next official checkpoint is Klondike, at…
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Kaw Point to St. Charles, mile by mile — Part 7: Jefferson City to Hermann
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Downstream from the Jefferson City checkpoint the Missouri River opens up, and for forty-six river miles it does not close again. Jefferson City sits at river mile 144, with a cutoff of 4 p.m. Thursday.…
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Kaw Point to St. Charles, mile by mile — Part 6: Cooper’s Landing to Jefferson City
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Below Cooper’s Landing the course leaves this paper’s stretch of the Missouri River and does not come back. Twenty-six river miles downstream is Jefferson City — the first official checkpoint since Glasgow, eighty-two river miles…
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Kaw Point to St. Charles, mile by mile — Part 5: Franklin Island to Cooper’s Landing
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Downstream from Franklin Island, the Missouri runs twenty-five river miles past our own front door — the only stretch of this series the paper can walk to. The order through here is Boonville, then Rocheport,…