In this episode, Chris Thomas sits down with Steve Schnarr of Missouri River Relief and the sitting Race Director of the MR340. We cover so much in this episode from the community-centric programs Missouri River Relief provides and how they transform lives as well as the river, the story behind MRR becoming involved with the MR340, how the race has evolved over the years, the MR340 culture of sharing, hallucinating robots, volunteerism and unsung heroes, the Reaper, and the innovative approaches paddlers take to get to the finish line of the MR340. There’s so much more to this episode, but I’ll let you hear it from Steve himself on this 56th episode of the Dabbling in Paddleism Podcast…

-Missouri River Bookshelf (on Missouri River Relief website) - https://riverrelief.org/resource/mo-river-bookshelf

-Missouri River Relief - https://riverrelief.org/

-MR340 - https://mr340.org/

-Documentary about 2022 MR340 ”Chronicle – Race for the River” by KMBC in Kansas City - https://mr340.org/mr340-documentary/

-Missouri American Water MR340 Facebook Group (soon to be renamed MR340 Community) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/188849561244166

Missouri River Relief Social Media

-Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/missouririverrelief

-Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mo.river.relief/

-YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/MissouriRiverRelief