Kayaking The Headwaters Of The Mississippi River
Kayaking The Headwaters Of The Mississippi River
My first attempt at putting together a video-blog of our trip from Lake Itasca to Grand Rapids, MN. If you have paddled this stretch of the river or planning to in the future, please comment below and tell us about your experience or ask questions.
The voiceover changes throughout the video is due to me tying out different microphones to see which one works best. let me know which one you think sounds the best or are they all about the same? Thanks for watching!
half to save this video, be a really awesome kayaking trip
Wow! That looked absolutely amazing. I can’t even imagine how awesome that had to be. Absolutely breathtaking.
Great narration. It’s if I were there with you. At the end, I wished you had paddled to the Gulf! What a trip you seemed to have had!
I don’t usually watch slide shows, but you got me hooked before I could click out. lol Nicely done sir and thanks for the C-Tug info.
And yes, "Want to see my wife" is always the best bet.
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Really cool
Great vid. I’m planning on doing it this June. Going to skip the lakes cause I’m going solo in my Grumman. If my back and shoulder hold up, I’d like to make it to the cities. I got a month off so I’m taking my sweet, sweet time!
Very nice video! I’m planning a trip June 1 from southwest Iowa all the way down to the gulf! Getting everything prepped now and making sure I have everything.
Great vid. When did you depart Itaska, what seaward kayak did you use and did you have issues at the headwaters with it’s size and what kind of stove did you pack????Fun watch, glad your trip exceeding your expectations. Way cool.
How long does it take to go source to sea
I guess to anyone not from minnesota all of this might look cool and wild but it really isnt’t. If you want to see true wilderness go all the way north past Duluth. That is wild.
Enjoyed the video. Shoving off on a source 2 sea June 25.
Great stuff. Glad you and your boys had a good trip.
Thanks for sharing. I am considering make a trip down the Mississippi. I have always wanted to do something that most people never would even think about. Being that I am almost 59, I wish I would have thought about it 10 years ago. I have the time, but after getting conditioned for taking this task on, I will still need to find someone to take the journey with me. It may already be foolish to even think of doing this, but would be a complete fool to do it alone after watching several vids of pe
Nice video, I’m thinking about doing the trip this spring/summer. No set date yet, but considering mid May to June 1 for a start date.
hi alex
Memories you can all carry for the rest of your lives.
Even the bad will be something to smile about in the future.
GOOD JOB! I am planning a Source to Sea for May 5th so I enjoyed your video. Reading and watching all the books and video’s is great because each has a "nugget" to add to my planning. Most general things are of course the same, but taking a "smaller" inflatable kayak is a little different than the awesome sea kayaks you used. (Yes inflatable kayaks have already been done in two sea eagle explorer series. Me? I have some "odd" modifications I have made and using a knock out inflatable and a Sea Eagle 370 as my "tow" I’m using some skill sets from Alaska and a long slow go to do the ole Miss.
Nice film.
Hey nice video! I’m planning on canoeing the entire river next summer. Is it relatively easy to find your way down stream in these parts or should i refer to some kind of map?
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Ah, this brought back a lot of memories. Our group canoed down the MIssissippi in 1983 (no Youtube, digitial cameras, GPS, cell phones, etc back then), and wonderfully, it looks like not much in this area has changed!
I wondered whether tightening regulations would even allow such a trip these days–it’s great that you could do it. Thanks for sharing!
what are the kayaks that you are using?
doing the whole river solo this june, 2019 and filming as much of the trip as i can. where those fiberglass kayaks?
Beautiful scenery!! Thank you for sharing!!
Wow I wanna do this so bad I wanna cry. But all I do is work 70-80 hours per week.