Category: outdoors
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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,…
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Kaw Point to St. Charles, mile by mile — Part 4: Glasgow to Franklin Island
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Downstream from Glasgow, the Missouri keeps unspooling toward home — and this stretch is the one where the MR340 course finally starts feeling like ours. Glasgow sits at river mile 226, one of the race’s…
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The Brainless Blob on Your Tree: What’s That Slime Mold in Town?
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If you’ve walked past a tree stump or a pile of mulch around town this summer and seen something that looks like scrambled eggs — or, less appetizingly, like something the dog brought up —…
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102 Managed Deer Hunts Are Open for Application — Here’s How to Get In
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If deer season feels a long way off, the application window for one of the better ways into it is open right now. The Missouri Department of Conservation is taking applications for 102 managed deer…