Tag: Ozarks

  • Last Best Streams: #2403.

    Last Best Streams: #2403.

    Early explorers traveling by water can be forgiven for misappropriating the term “mountains”.  Once you’re up out of the river valleys you see the region for what it is: a broad, flat plateau, lifted nearly in place a couple million years ago, judging by the nearly horizontal bands of sedimentary rock exposed along roadcuts.  The…

  • Last Best Streams: #329.

    Slacker Solstice.  All I knew was the name and coordinates to a recently hayed field deep in the Ozarks, an old bungaloid house in a grove of black walnut, a barn, a tattered greenhouse, and a goat paddock out back.  Two dozen Rainbow People types milled around the house, playing guitars and singing.  Lots of…