Buffalo River, Ponca to Kyles Landing (March 2008)

 
I have no experience on the Buffalo but from what I could pick up from others and from my experience that day, I'd say the conditions put the action on the river at its toughest.  Higher water would have been fast and more dangerous but would have buried obstacles now barely present allowing you to slip right past.  Lower conditions would have made those obstacles obvious and slower flow would have allowed easy navigation.  More on the water/river conditions in a second.

Right out of the shoot you are treated with a chance to run right along one the Buffalo River's signature bluffs.  Streaked and stained they seem to tower above you as you drift by.  On this day water flowed over the edge of them in places.

 
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