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re: Psychos PADDLE Down the Length of the Mississippi
Posted on 8/22/23 at 11:01 am to Upshift Downshift
Posted on 8/22/23 at 11:01 am to Upshift Downshift
There's a kayak race down Mississippi every year from Port Gibson to Natchez (47 miles-ish). I did it back in 2008ish. It was a lot of work but kind of cool to do. Wasn't sketchy at all but you had to learn how to trek the bends of the river or you were paddling for minimal progress. Not paddling you go about 5mph with paddling we averaged 15mph, on fishing kayaks.
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Posted on 8/22/23 at 11:02 am to Upshift Downshift
Sounds adventurous and exciting. Better have good equipment with a top notch life jacket! Those currents are beast.
Posted on 8/22/23 at 11:03 am to Upshift Downshift
Grimes who had baby XaX12 with Elon Musk tried doing this.
That's her on the right. 2009
That's her on the right. 2009
Posted on 8/22/23 at 11:04 am to Upshift Downshift
I don't think it's crazy. I hope I'm still physically able to do something like that or hike the Appalachian Trail when I retire.
I'd rather float down the river in a houseboat or something though than paddle it in a canoe. Something like this.
SS Hail Mary
The Patience
I'd rather float down the river in a houseboat or something though than paddle it in a canoe. Something like this.
SS Hail Mary
The Patience
Posted on 8/22/23 at 11:08 am to nolaTiger24
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harder to navigate then down south.
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Posted on 8/22/23 at 11:10 am to Upshift Downshift
Literally sitting ducks when going through New Orleans! No thanks!
Posted on 8/22/23 at 11:11 am to jflsufan
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Those people are crazy. I wouldn't paddle down Bayou Fountain much less the mighty Mississipp
Man, you can put in at Highland Road Park kayak launch and be at the Amite River in less than a day. There's actually another kayak launch at a park on Bayou Manchac near Old Jefferson. It was really pretty and shady on Bayou Fountain & Manchac before they started all this desnagging and clearing work for flood protection. You float right past all the pretty homes in the back of the Country Club. Me and my 5yo son at the time did it one day, and he had to get out and take a shite by a tree in the back yard of one of those mansions. Sorry if that was on camera
This post was edited on 8/22/23 at 11:13 am
Posted on 8/22/23 at 11:17 am to Upshift Downshift
I know a guy doing it in sections. Not the whole length all at once. Last time I spoke to him he hadn’t tackled the lower part of the river. I raised the potential dangers. He didn’t seem too concerned.
Posted on 8/22/23 at 11:22 am to Upshift Downshift
To add to your nice links.
Here is a mile by mile guide to paddling the Mississippi. The most detailed and informative I have ever read. Hope y’all enjoy.
Rivergator by Quapaw Canoe.
Here is a mile by mile guide to paddling the Mississippi. The most detailed and informative I have ever read. Hope y’all enjoy.
Rivergator by Quapaw Canoe.
Posted on 8/22/23 at 11:23 am to Upshift Downshift
She ain’t Sacagawea, but she’d do.
Posted on 8/22/23 at 11:25 am to Upshift Downshift
Rather drive around and hit a bunch of prettier rivers.
Eleven point and current in missouri. Devils, medina, and pecos in texas.
Buffalo in arkansas
But everyone enjoys different things
Eleven point and current in missouri. Devils, medina, and pecos in texas.
Buffalo in arkansas
But everyone enjoys different things
Posted on 8/22/23 at 11:26 am to Upshift Downshift
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What does the OT think?
Picture me as Napoleon Dynamite saying “Lucky”. That’s what I think.
Posted on 8/22/23 at 11:28 am to Upshift Downshift
I went with my stepbrother on one of his fishing runs and we saw a dude loaded down with a bunch of gear and he was making a tent on a sandbar. We stopped and talked briefly and he said he does this every year. He takes off 30 days and then literally just floats the fricking Mississippi 
Posted on 8/22/23 at 11:29 am to Upshift Downshift
I’d love to do this when I retire. Wouldn’t be able to take that long off. Maybe with my sons, if wife (no pics)was there, it would be a train wreck
Posted on 8/22/23 at 11:30 am to Mushroom1968
props to them for paddling down the gator filled Atchafalaya, i would be too pussy
Posted on 8/22/23 at 11:31 am to Nitrogen
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props to them for paddling
ISWYDT
Posted on 8/22/23 at 11:32 am to Upshift Downshift
How does that make them a psycho?
Posted on 8/22/23 at 11:37 am to GFunkEra
About 10 years ago I watched a Baw try to swim across the river from the foot of canal to Algiers. He got about 50 yards.
Posted on 8/22/23 at 11:39 am to 777Tiger
Posted on 8/22/23 at 11:56 am to Loup
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If I were a teacher I would do this sort of thing with all the free time I'd have.
They don't get any free time. They're ALWAYS at school grading papers and making lesson plans.....haven't you heard!?!?!?
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