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Looks like a fun trip.

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Too cold to camp up here in MN still.
Last week of June 3 friends and I are beginning a canoe trip down the Mississippi. Leaving from Fort Snelling. Should arrive in Winona in 6 days. Each year we'll travel 5-6 days. In about 15 years, we'll reach New Orleans.

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robbotis wrote:Too cold to camp up here in MN still.
Last week of June 3 friends and I are beginning a canoe trip down the Mississippi. Leaving from Fort Snelling. Should arrive in Winona in 6 days. Each year we'll travel 5-6 days. In about 15 years, we'll reach New Orleans.
Sounds amazing, but harrowing too. Keep an eye for this guy, he's amazing:

Chad Pregracke

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robbotis wrote:Too cold to camp up here in MN still.
Last week of June 3 friends and I are beginning a canoe trip down the Mississippi. Leaving from Fort Snelling. Should arrive in Winona in 6 days. Each year we'll travel 5-6 days. In about 15 years, we'll reach New Orleans.
Winter camping is the best.

You get to do things like this.
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Though, I rocked shorts for the hike out.
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Then eventually found a spot where the ice had melted down enough to sit on a cliff and eat lunch.
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Hungary Jack wrote:
robbotis wrote:Too cold to camp up here in MN still.
Last week of June 3 friends and I are beginning a canoe trip down the Mississippi. Leaving from Fort Snelling. Should arrive in Winona in 6 days. Each year we'll travel 5-6 days. In about 15 years, we'll reach New Orleans.
Sounds amazing, but harrowing too. Keep an eye for this guy, he's amazing:

Chad Pregracke
I've read several journals of people making long trips like that. Sounds so great. A truly freeing experience.
I'm looking forward to it.
Portaging? Not so much.
But I hear the locks are pretty scary when your in a canoe.

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I just finished "Into the Wild" which gave me a better appreciation of you weirdos who go off into cold mountainy places.

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docellis wrote:I just finished "Into the Wild" which gave me a better appreciation of you weirdos who go off into cold mountainy places.
We even have our own trail names like "Alexander Supertramp". "The Abdominator" was already taken, so I use "Hungry Jack."

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Mine's Chip.

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At work they call me The Caucasian Nightmare.

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lukethedrifter wrote:At work they call me The Caucasian Nightmare.
Did your daughter have a trail name when she hiked the GC?

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