>>1010535Sure thing. Did this with my best friend. Was an absolute joy of an adventure.
Had a buddy deliver us to Lake Itasca with our gear and canoe, we've got everything in 55L dry bags, basically all your typical gear but we also brought a ruger 10/22 and some fishing poles because we didn't want to have to travel into town to get food because that's a bitch so we just kept an eye out for the law man because you're supposed to have permits for doing that stuff and it's always state by state and fuck getting 20 different permits. We've got 5 gallons of water in containers. This canoe has a lot of weight, but it's better than frying to death.
We just went a nice and smooth pace, covered 15-30 miles each day and it was much more related to the flow of the river and the wind than anything. We had trouble catching the current in the middle of the river because as barges would pass it gets pretty dangerous for a canoe so we stayed closer to the shore line for most of the journey, was often very choppy but it allowed us to pull up onto shore for when the barges or dicks with fast boats came by.
Luckily we had both played on rivers a lot of times in our lives so the dams were easy for us to deal with. Sometimes you've got to portage over them, which can be like 1-3 miles of carrying your shit. Most of the time though you can just pull into the lock like a normal boat and tug the string and they'll let you right through.
Dirty ass river. I mean, I'm familiar with the Mississippi but daaaaamn some parts are dirty as fuck. Didn't really feel good about eating the fish in a lot of parts, honestly most of it. We did anyways of course, purposefully ate charred black meat a lot. Eventually started to like the burnt taste. Neither of us got sick thankfully. We did get pretty dark skinned though, the heat made me crazier than it made my buddy.
Honestly met some cool people on the journey, they're interested to hear about the silly bullshit you're doing.
