I'm hoping that by late Spring Covid 19 will be a the downward swing and we can get on with our lives.
The Missouri Chapter have sent me their rally plans, as they sit, for 2020.
Greetings,
Wanted to give you a heads up on 2020’s
scheduled WOW ride. Put on your
calendars June 5-7 and join us in SE region for a good time. Paul Cook and I have collaborated on planning
and wanted to let you know of the tentative particulars of the trip.
Friday, June 5 beginning at 3:00pm we’ll be
receiving arrivals at a large pavilion at Fort Davidson State Park in Pilot
Knob. We’ll have some sort of gruel
prepared to be served 6-6:30ish for the evening meal. Here are lodging choices, with links:
Saturday, June 6-We’ll gather for a
sit-down breakfast at the Arcadia Academy.
Following a quick ride briefing we’ll head south and visit one of the
few remaining MDC fire towers still standing and the only one with a
catwalk. We’ll get the brave and
adventurous of the group in the tower where, from the highest point in
Missouri, they’ll have quite a view.
Our ride will continue south through some
fairly hilly and curvy country, through Sam A. Baker State Park and
beyond. Hitting the flat country at
Arab, it will be a short jog to Duck Creek where we have a room reserved for a
catered lunch at the MDC facility. There
we meet Mic Plunkett, conservation agent, retired. Mic’s now into banding day old wood ducks and
hooded mergansers. He is one of a
handful of people in the world using a new technique for banding
ducklings. He promises to fill us in
with a short program on that, and then, if all the stars line up right,
(weather, timing of hatches, proximity of nests to us) actually band some
ducklings in our presence.
Anybody who may be repulsed at the sight of
baby ducklings, like Ralph, will be temporarily shunned from our group and
directed to the Mingo National Wildlife Refuge Visitors Center seven miles
away. We’ll all regroup there, take a
short ride on the refuge (only paved roads, fellas) and then proceed to
Wappapelo where arrangements have been made for our group at Miller’s Motor Lodge. Reservations have been made for dinner at
6:00 pm across the street at https://www.crabbandcompany.com/. Following dinner, we can gather and enjoy
visiting, snacks and an adult beverage or two in a meeting room at the motel.
These are our plans at this point. We want to encourage you to make your lodging
reservations as soon as possible as these are popular Missouri tourist areas
(kinda like Branson, without the traffic).
Advise Gregg ASAP of your intent to attend this year’s rally please, for
planning purposes.
Also, please recruit more conservation
officers, current or retired, to join us! We’re going to have a good time!
Any questions? Feel free to contact either of us at:
Paul Cook
573/718-9579 foxcook4@gmail.com
Gregg Hitchings 573/880-2899 gregghitchings@gmail.com
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