The Mississippi changes its face completely after Minneapolis. Between Minneapolis and St. Louis she is tamed by 30 locks and dams built...

We drove down to Davenport in almost hot weather. It seemed incredible that soon another cold front would move in. We treated ourselves wit...

Two days from Minneapolis Brian and I did some research on the climate charts for the upcoming river segments and came up with shocking re...

Paddling the upper Mississippi River from Lake Bemidji to Minneapolis has been a paddlers's dream and I cannot understand that this 400 ...

Blanchard Dam Our luck lasted just 1 11/2 days after our skipping to Little Falls. For 1 1/2 days we were more or less happily paddling ...

Sunrise over the Mississippi Before Little Falls we were taught again that our low water problems were not over yet. Several times we ha...

We started out in relatively good weather and it stayed like that for the whole stage. No more sub freezing temperatures and actually a lo...